Jaguar Poised to Pounce On Petascale
The NCCS has begun receiving the first cabinets of its upcoming Cray XT5 petascale upgrade to its Jaguar supercomputer, a system that will soon be among the most powerful in the world.Full story »
Astrophysicists Simulate the Dark Matter that Cradles a Galaxy
Using the power of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Jaguar supercomputer, a team led by astrophysicist Piero Madau has run the largest simulation ever of dark matter evolving over billions of years to envelop a galaxy such as our own Milky Way.Full story »
Physicist Don Batchelor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is trying to create a common language and a computational framework that will allow diverse software codes to communicate with each other in simulations of plasma.Full story »
NCCS System Models Hummingbird Flight
Researchers are simulating hummingbird flight on the NCCS's Phoenix supercomputer to advance the science of aerodynamics.Full story »
NCCS in the News 
- Abrupt Climate Change Focus Of U.S. National Laboratories
Sep 19th, 2008
Abrupt climate change is a potential menace that hasn’t received much attention. That’s about to change. Through its Climate Change Prediction Program, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological ... - Collaborative Supercomputing
Sep 12th, 2008
The big news in the science community this week was the kickoff of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), The $10 billion atom smasher that sent its first proton beams through ... - Department of Energy to Provide Supercomputing Time to Run NOAA’s Climate Change Models
Sep 10th, 2008
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ( DOE ) Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for the U.S. ...
| Recently Run Jobs at NCCS | |
|---|---|
| Processors | Project |
| 8,192 | Verification and Validation of Petascale Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas |
| 4,096 | Fluctuation Spectra and Anomalous Heating in Magnetized Plasma Turbulence |
| 2,336 | Climate-Science Computational End Station Development and Grand Challenge Team |
| 2,048 | Validation Studies of Global Microturbulence Simulations vs New Short-Wavelength Measurements on the National Spherical Torus (NSTX) Experiment |
| 2,048 | Verification and Validation of Petascale Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas |








