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ORNL’s Bland receives DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award for computing leadership

Posted at 9:24 pm June 26, 2018
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Buddy Bland (Photo courtesy ORNL)

Buddy Bland (Photo courtesy ORNL)

Arthur “Buddy” Bland, program director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the Secretary’s Appreciation Award for his nearly four decades of achievements in providing high-performance computing resources for science, a press release said.

Bland was cited by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry for his work “in recognition of nearly 40 years of leadership in delivering high-performance computing resources to address the nation’s science and engineering challenges across a wide array of disciplines and for critical contributions to the success of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and sustained U.S. leadership in high-performance computing and computational science.”

Bland led the project to deliver the Summit supercomputer, launched June 8 at ORNL as “the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer” with a peak performance capability of 200 petaflops, or 200,000 trillion calculations per second. Summit was listed number one in the TOP500 list released on Monday. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Arthur "Buddy" Bland, DOE Office of Science, high-performance computing, Jaguar, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rick Perry, Secretary’s Appreciation Award, Summit supercomputer, Thomas Zacharia, Titan, Top500 List, world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer

For first time since 2012, US has top supercomputer in world

Posted at 1:37 pm June 25, 2018
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer was named number one on the TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest computing systems on Monday, June 25, 2018. (Photo credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer was named number one on the TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest computing systems on Monday, June 25, 2018. (Photo credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy)

 

For the first time since 2012, the United States has the most powerful supercomputer in the world, and it’s again located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The new supercomputer, called Summit, is capable of 200 petaflops, or 200,000 trillion calculations per second. Equipment delivery for Summit was completed in March, and officials celebrated the launch of the supercomputer in a ceremony attended by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on June 8.

The last time the United States had the top supercomputer was in November 2012. That machine, which is still in use, is named Titan, and it’s also at ORNL. It’s now number seven on the semiannual TOP500 list, which was released Monday.

China had held the top spot since June 2013, and the country had held the top two spots since June 2016. That ended with Monday’s TOP500 announcement. Previously at number one and number two, the top two Chinese supercomputers have fallen to number two and number four.

ORNL, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, now has two of the top seven systems on the list. They are Summit at number one and Titan at number seven. The United States now has six of the top 10 machines, according to the TOP500 list. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, China, Chuck Fleischmann, Cray, exascale computing, High Performance Linpack, hybrid CPU-GPU architecture, IBM, IBM Power9 central processing unit, ISC High Performance conference, Jaguar, Japan, Lamar Alexander, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lenovo, Linux operating system, Mellanox EDR InfiniBand network, Milky Way-2A, most powerful supercomputer, NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphics processing unit, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, petaflops, quantum computing, Red Hat, Sierra, smartest supercomputer, summit, Sunway TaihuLight, supercomputer, supercomputers, Thomas Zacharia, Tianhe-2, Tianhe-2A, Titan, Top500, Top500 List, U.S. Department of Energy, United States

ORNL building world’s smartest supercomputer

Posted at 11:31 am August 3, 2017
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

This a graphical representation of the Summit computer cabinets. It is not a photograph of the final design. (Image courtesy ORNL/Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility)

This a graphical representation of the Summit computer cabinets. It is not a photograph of the final design. (Image courtesy ORNL/Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility)

 

Note: This story was last updated at 10 a.m. Aug. 8.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Wednesday said it is building the world’s smartest supercomputer.

The new supercomputer is called Summit. It will be located in a new data center next to Titan, which is now the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world.

Summit will be 5-10 times faster than Titan, ORNL said. It will move data five to 10 times faster, store eight times more data, and perform many more calculations simultaneously than Titan, the lab said in information provided by spokesperson Morgan McCorkle.

Summit will be the world’s smartest supercomputer because of its enormous memory and data handling capabilities as well as its unique machine learning processor design, McCorkle said.

“The first of Summit’s cabinets arrived Monday, and our team is in the process of uncrating and putting them in place,” McCorkle said in response to questions from Oak Ridge Today. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Science, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Argonne National Laboratory, Aurora, Center for Accelerated Application Readiness, central processing units, CPUs, Cray XK7, GPUs, graphics processing units, high-performance computing, IBM, IBM POWER9 CPUs, Jaguar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Mellanox, Milky Way-2, Morgan McCorkle, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Volta GPUs, NVIDIA’s high-speed NVLink, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, petaflop, Piz Daint, powerful supercomputer, Sierra, smartest supercomputer, summit, Sunway TaihuLight, supercomputer, Tianhe-2, Titan, Top500 List, U.S. Department of Energy

Supercomputers, materials and bears: ORNL marks eventful 2012

Posted at 4:05 pm December 28, 2012
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1 Comment

Jeff Nichols and Titan at ORNL

ORNL’s newest supercomputer, Titan, seen here with associate lab director for computing and computational sciences Jeff Nichols, took the top spot in November’s Top500 rankings. (Photos courtesy of ORNL)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory regained the lead in high-performance computing, enjoyed record-setting recognition for its research, and became a showpiece for renewable energy technology during 2012.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science reciprocated with favorable marks in its annual appraisal of managing contractor UT-Battelle. DOE cited the laboratory’s operation of its scientific user facilities, its “delivery of impactful science,” and a successful workforce restructuring to reduce operating costs.

“The dedicated efforts of our laboratory staff in all phases of science and technology and operational support have resulted in an excellent record of delivering science to the nation in 2012,” said ORNL Director Thom Mason. “ORNL will continue to set the pace in research toward a clean and secure energy future.”

ORNL’s 2012 included achievements in both research and support.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Science, Top Stories Tagged With: 2012, biomass-fueled steam plant, community outreach, DOE, Herb Mook, High Flux Isotope Reactor, high-performance computing, Jaguar, Mars Curiosity, National Academy of Engineering, Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, Onnes Prize, ORNL, R&D 100 Awards, Radiation Safety Information Computation Center, renewable energy, research, science, scientific computing, Spallation Neutron Source, Steven Zinkle, Thom Mason, Titan, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT-Battelle, workforce restructuring

UT study predicts extreme climate in eastern United States

Posted at 6:29 pm December 17, 2012
By University of Tennessee 2 Comments

From extreme drought to super storms, many wonder what the future holds for the climate of the eastern United States. A study conducted by researchers at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville does away with the guessing.

Results show the region will be hotter and wetter.

Joshua Fu, a civil and environmental engineering professor, and Yang Gao, a graduate research assistant, developed precise scales of cities that act as a climate crystal ball, seeing high-resolution climate changes almost 50 years into the future.

The study found that heat waves will become more severe in most regions of the eastern United States and that both the Northeast and Southeast will see a drastic increase in precipitation.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Science, Top Stories Tagged With: climate, eastern United States, Emory University, Environmental Research Letters, extreme weather, heat waves, Jaguar, Joshua Fu, Kraken, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Center for Computational Sciences, National Institute for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, precipitation, temperatures, University of Tennessee, UT, UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, Yang Gao

World’s fastest supercomputer at ORNL more about research than rankings

Posted at 4:53 am November 13, 2012
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Titan Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now ranked as the world’s fastest. (Photo courtesy of ORNL)

The No. 1 ranking for the new Titan supercomputer, designating it as the most powerful in the world, was clearly appreciated in East Tennessee on Monday.

But even as they celebrated a return to the top spot, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the giant computer is based, said they are focused more on research than rankings.

“We love being No. 1,” said Bronson Messer, acting group leader for scientific computing at the National Center for Computational Science at ORNL. “It’s great recognition. But what really matters is what science will do with the machine.”

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Science, Top Stories Tagged With: AMD, Bronson Messer, Buddy Bland, CPU, Cray XK7, GPU, INCITE, Jack Dongarra, Jaguar, Jeff Nichols, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Center for Computational Science, NVIDIA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, petaflops, Sequoia, supercomputer, Thom Mason, Titan, Top500, U.S. Department of Energy

New Titan supercomputer debuts at ORNL

Posted at 9:48 am October 29, 2012
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Comments

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL’s last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers.

Titan, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, climate change, efficient engines, materials, and other disciplines, and pave the way for a wide range of achievements in science and technology.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Jaguar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, supercomputer, Titan

UT, ORNL lead national project to study nuclear fusion reactor materials

Posted at 6:57 pm September 16, 2012
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

A research team at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive $4.1 million during the next five years to study materials used in nuclear fusion reactors.

The funding is part of a larger $11.5 million U.S. Department of Energy project that includes seven other laboratories and universities across the country.

The goal is to help convert nuclear fusion, which promises an “almost limitless supply of clean and safe energy,” into a practical, commercial power source, a UT press release said.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Brian Wirth, fusion reactors, Jaguar, Kraken, nuclear fusion, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, SciDAC, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee

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