Articles tagged with: Petascale

[ Nov 14 2012 - 4:29 pm ]

Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan the world’s most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient.

[ Nov 12 2012 - 10:15 am ]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is again home to the most powerful computer in the world, according to the Top500 list, a semiannual ranking of computing systems around the world.

[ Oct 29 2012 - 3:01 am ]

The DOE’s Leadership Computing Facilities have awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects with high potential for accelerating discovery and innovation through its INCITE program.

[ Oct 29 2012 - 3:01 am ]

ORNL has launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of 20 petaflops, by employing a family of processors, called graphics processing units (GPUs), first created for computer gaming.

[ Jul 7 2012 - 8:07 pm ]

GE Global Research, an OLCF industrial partner, was recently named a winner of International Data Corporations (IDCs) HPC Innovation Excellence Award.

[ Jun 27 2012 - 12:59 pm ]

An ORNL and University of Tennessee team has used the Department of Energy’s Jaguar supercomputer to calculate the number of isotopes allowed by the laws of physics. The team’s results are presented in the June 28 issue of the journal Nature.

[ Jun 15 2012 - 2:09 pm ]

An international gathering of researchers, computer scientists, and engineers converged on San Jose, California from May 14–17 to share their experiences using the newest technology in HPC—blistering fast GPUs.

[ Jun 15 2012 - 2:07 pm ]

GE takes its turbomachinery research and development to the fast lane with the help of Jaguar, one of the fastest computers in the world.

[ May 24 2012 - 11:50 am ]

A team of astrophysicists and computational scientists is using the power of the OLCF’s Jaguar to virtually blow up dwarf stars, revealing the secrets of the biggest thermonuclear explosions in the universe.

[ May 24 2012 - 10:11 am ]

In a paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a team led by ORNL’s Pratul Agarwal described a process that aims to improve upon nature – and it happens in the blink of an eye.