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DOE, NNSA computing project names new director, to be based at ORNL

Posted at 5:23 pm September 20, 2017
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Doug Kothe

Doug Kothe

A collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration has named a new director of the project to build computing systems that are at least 50 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today—and the new director will be based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The collaborative project is the Exascale Computing Project. It’s a collaboration between DOE’s Office of Science and the NNSA, which is a semi-autonomous agency within DOE.

The new director is Doug Kothe, a 32-year veteran of DOE’s national laboratory system who most recently served in ORNL’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate and as the applications development lead for the Exascale Computing Project, or ECP. For the preceding five years, he led the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, DOE’s first Energy Innovation Hub, which uses supercomputers to improve nuclear reactor performance.

Kothe will be ECP director effective October 1. He will replace Paul Messina, who is stepping down after two years to return to Argonne National Laboratory, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Argonne National Laboratory, Bill Goldstein, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, DOE, Doug Kothe, ECP, Exascale Computing Project, high-performance computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laborator, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Paul Messina, supercomputers, Thomas Zacharia, U.S. Department of Energy

ORNL receives DOE funding for applications for more powerful supercomputers

Posted at 9:25 pm September 7, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

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Photo by ORNL

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received funding from a federal project to develop applications for more powerful supercomputers, systems that could be 50 to 100 times more powerful than today’s fastest supercomputers.

The project is the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, or ECP. It’s to develop applications for future exascale systems. Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, which is up to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today, a press release said.

The work on applications will help guide DOE’s development of a U.S. exascale ecosystem as part of President Barack Obama’s National Strategic Computing Initiative, or NSCI, the press release said.

The first round of ECP funding totals $39.8 million for 22 proposals representing teams from 45 research and academic organizations. ORNL researchers and technical staff will participate in 12 of the 22 projects.

The awards, announced Wedneday, target advanced modeling and simulation solutions to specific challenges supporting key DOE missions in science, clean energy, and national security, as well as collaborations such as the Precision Medicine Initiative with the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Barack Obama, DOE, ECP, exascale computing, John Turner, National Nuclear Security Administration, National Strategic Computing Initiative, NCSI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Paul Kent, Paul Messina, supercomputers, Thomas Evans, U.S. Department of Energy

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