By NCCS | November 20, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Program provides scientists with computationally intensive projects access to leadership computing
The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program has received an HPCwire Readers’ Choice award for “best HPC collaboration between government and industry.” Since 2003, the INCITE program has given large-scale, computationally intensive research projects access to America’s premier leadership computing facility (LCF) centers, established and operated by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. In 2009 through INCITE, the LCF centers at Argonne and Oak Ridge national laboratories allocated 900 million processing hours to projects with the potential to significantly advance key areas in science and engineering. INCITE projects come from universities, industry, and government agencies.
Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPCwire, announced …
By NCCS | November 19, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Second ORNL-led team also finalist for Gordon Bell Prize
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Markus Eisenbach was named winner Thursday of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the world’s highest-performing scientific computing applications. Another team led by ORNL’s Edo Aprà was also among nine finalists for the prize.
Results of the contest were announced in Portland, Oregon, during the SC09 international supercomputing conference. The prize is supported by high-performance computing pioneer Gordon Bell and is administered by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Eisenbach and colleagues from ORNL, Florida State University, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Swiss National Supercomputing Center achieved 1.84 thousand trillion calculations per second—or 1.84 petaflops—using an application that analyzes magnetic systems …
By Jayson Hines | November 18, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Please join us in the ORNL booth (booth 1513) this morning at SC09. Speakers for the High Energy Physics/Astrophysics session include Alexei Kritsuk, UCSD, at 10:30 am, and Pieter Maris, Iowa State University, at 11:30 am.
By Dawn Levy | November 18, 2009 at 8:29 am
‘Jaguar’ takes three gold medals and a bronze while ‘Kraken’ scores two silvers
Two powerful Cray XT5 systems at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory computing complex outmuscled competitors to win half of this year’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) Challenge awards. Results of the “Best Performance” awards, which measure excellence in handling computing workloads, were announced Nov. 17 at SC09, an international gathering of supercomputing professionals. The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) “Jaguar” supercomputer took home the lion’s share of the honors, with three “gold medals” and one “bronze.” “Kraken,” an academic supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through a partnership with the University of Tennessee, showed with two “silver medals” that it too is a …
By Jayson Hines | November 17, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Some images from Tuesday’s activities at SC09, including: energy and climate presentations at the ORNL booth, HPC Challenge award announcements, and Top500 award presentations.
By Jayson Hines | November 17, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Please stop by the ORNL booth this afternoon to listen to three sessions from climate scientists using ORNL resources: Forrest Hoffman, ORNL, 1:30 pm; James Kinter, COLA, 2:30 pm; and William Putman, NASA, 3:30 pm.
By Jayson Hines | November 17, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Stop by the ORNL booth this morning to hear from Jeremy Smith, UT/ORNL (10:30 am) and Gil Weigand, ORNL (11:30 am).
By Jayson Hines | November 17, 2009 at 12:10 am
SC09 kicked-off on Monday night in Portland. Highlights from tonight’s activities included the Top500 presentation by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee and ORNL, the acceptance of awards from insideHPC and HPCwire, as well as a visit from Al Trivelpiece, former laboratory director at ORNL.
By NCCS | November 16, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Publication’s readers vote lab top organization for high-performance computing advancement
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been hand-picked by insideHPC readers to receive the publication’s first-ever HPC Community Leadership Award. A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, ORNL has routinely contributed to scientific computing in numerous fields including astrophysics, fusion energy, materials science, and biophysics. The world’s most powerful computing complex, ORNL houses Jaguar, the fastest supercomputer for unclassified research and the first petascale machine available for open science.
“ORNL has blazed a trail at the very high end of supercomputing in recent years,” said John West, editor of insideHPC (http://www.insidehpc.com). “Bringing together the expertise, funding, and organizational resources to …
By NCCS | November 16, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Global high-performance computing community honors supercomputer and its home lab
Jaguar, a Cray XT supercomputer, and its Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) host site have received an HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for “Top Supercomputing Achievement.” Jaguar is the fastest high-performance computing system for civilian science. More than 600 experts at ORNL help many more researchers in industry, academia, and government wrest results from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science machine. Since Jaguar’s upgrade in 2008 to become the scientific community’s first petascale system, researchers using the machine for studies in fields including advanced energy, climate science and astrophysics have published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
“This award, …
