Petascale Computing to Advance Climate Research
Posted on Apr 18th, 2008
From the birth of HPC, climate research has had a voracious appetite for computing resources. John Drake, chief computational scientist for the Climate End Station at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ...
ORNL team wins DOE Secretary’s Achievement Honor Award
Posted on Apr 15th, 2008
Gilbert G. Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate has received the inaugural James R. Schlesinger Award from Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
The Secretary lauded Weigand ...
New University of Tennessee Supercomputer Puts Innovation Valley at Forefront of Discovery
Posted on Apr 10th, 2008
A new $65 million supercomputer is expected to catapult the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley to the lead in the worldwide race to find new medicines, materials and answers to environmental ...
UT-ORNL victory makes a few waves
Posted on Apr 9th, 2008
The National Science Foundation funds research activities at universities in much the way the U.S. Department of Energy funds work at the national labs.
It's those traditional roles that stirred controversy ...
ORNL gathering resources to focus on climate change
Posted on Mar 26th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I ran into Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason at a shindig for a newly opened research facility for nuclear safeguards.
We talked for a ...
Partnership brings together best of what Oak Ridge National Laboratory, universities have to offer
Posted on Mar 19th, 2008
Oak Ridge Associated Universities will fund — and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will provide the computing resources for — a series of high-performance computing grants for faculty and student ...
ORNL Workshops Focus on Cray XT, Lustre
Posted on Mar 10th, 2008
Computational scientists will gather at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in April to hone their skills with the Cray XT supercomputer and the Lustre file system.
ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer is among ...
Fastest Computer: One Million Trillion ‘Flops’ Per Second Targeted
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2008
Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories.
An exaflop is a thousand times ...
Application Requirements & Objectives for Petascale Systems
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2008
With its planned upgrade to a petaflop computer not far off, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) surveyed a broad user base to analyze and understand application requirements for these leadership ...
ORNL hires global leader in climate research
Posted on Feb 11th, 2008
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a new weapon in the fight to figure out climate change.
"It's a pretty outstanding laboratory," says James Hack, Director of the National Center for ...