With 4X Boost, Cumulus-2 HPC Cluster Goes into Climate Research Action at Oak Ridge Atmospheric Facility

Oak Ridge, TN — Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a new, more powerful computer system to support climate data research conducted by the DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. Procured and managed by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at ORNL, the Cumulus-2 cluster is a Dell HPC system with 16,384 processing cores […]

@HPCpodcast: Oak Ridge Assoc. Director Dr. Jeff Nichols on Frontier, on History-Making HPC, and on His Retirement

In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, join us for a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Frontier exascale supercomputer, how it was built in the middle of a pandemic and how it’s being prepared for full user-readiness. Frontier is a $600 million, 30 MW system comprised of 50-60 million parts in more than 100 cabinets, deployed at the Oak Ridge….

ORNL’s Philip Roth Named SC24 General Chair

Philip Roth, a group leader in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the general chair of SC24. Roth will be responsible for setting the overall vision for SC24 and work with the sponsoring societies (IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Consortium on […]