The race is on to develop a new generation of far more powerful supercomputers that could help solve some of the world's most vexing problems.
Exascale supercomputers, expected to appear by ...
Physicists explore what makes carbon-14 tick...
New processors are being loaded into Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, which could become the world's fastest machine by year's end.
Buddy Bland, project director of the Leadership ...
Q: How far is it from Barcelona to Istanbul?
A: Hmmm . . . About a petaflop.
ORNL's Buddy Bland, project director of the Leadership Computing Facility, actually laughed (modestly) at my ...
Spider Up and Spinning Connections to All Computing Platforms at ORNL
‘We couldn’t phone and order one,’ so ORNL, collaborators trail-blaze a file system giant
Spider, the world’s biggest Lustre-based, centerwide file ...
Modeling Volcanic Eruptions Mimics a Stressed Climate
Scientists simulate climate response to volcanic gas emissions to test model’s accuracy
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed 20 million tons ...
The Department of Energy is releasing a record amount of supercomputing time, 1.3 billion processor hours, which has astrophysicists, biologists and everyone in between drooling in anticipation.
Starting in 2010, some ...
Zacharia Takes Science and Technology Posts
Nichols named interim associate laboratory director for computing at ORNL
Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) associate director for computing and computational sciences, has ...
With complex computer modeling programs fine-tuned at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, a team guided by researchers from OSC and Louisiana State University will be among the first to road-test the ...
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Gregory Scott Jones
ORNL facility takes all-angles approach
As high-performance computing (HPC) enters the petascale age, the scientific challenges facing researchers have never been greater. Nor has the might of ...
