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BP Turns to ORNL to Help Manage, Access Growing Datasets

For assistance in managing and accessing their increasingly large and complex datasets, researchers at BP are working with Oak Ridge National Lab's experts.

Tackling the Complex Task of Software Deployment and Continuous Integration at Facilities

Ensuring speedup for exascale, managing dependencies and versions, and fostering great collaborative communication are key in deploying ECP software.

Software Enables Use of Distributed In-System Storage and Parallel File System

UnifyFS software can provide I/O performance portability for applications, enabling them to use distributed in-system storage and the parallel file sy

First Annual Exascale Day Celebrates Discoveries on the Fastest Supercomputers in the World

The first National Exascale Day, a registered holiday to be celebrated annually, will be marked by a panel discussion via an online webcast on Friday,

‘How the Results of Summit and Sierra are Influencing Exascale’

The presentation by ECP's Al Geist at the recent HPC User Forum is available on video via insideHPC.

Experts Weigh in on the Game-Changing Nature of Exascale Computing

A Q&A from the social network and blogging platform for technical professionals called Built In shares insights from three experts on exascale, the next goal for supercomputing.

Robustly Delivering Highly Accurate Computer Simulations of Complex Materials

ECP has assembled a team of experts to prepare simulation software to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the quantum level.

John Turner Gives Presentations in Europe on the ExaAM Project

Conferences focused on problems in multidisciplinary coupling and computational methods were the settings for presentations on ECP's ExaAM project.

ECP in the News: Story Roundup

Here are some of the latest instances of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in the news.

Recent Success Snapshots: Application Highlight Roundup

Narrative snapshots in time chronicle highlights of some of the Application Development efforts within ECP.

Summit Supercomputer Breaks Exaop Barrier on Neural Net Trained to Recognize Extreme Weather Patterns

The insideHPC blog reports that a team of computational scientists from Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories, and engineers from NVIDIA has demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has for the first time broken the exaop barrier.

ECP Announces New Co-Design Center to Focus on Exascale Machine Learning Technologies

New ExaLearn Co-Design Center to be led by Brookhaven National Laboratory's Francis (Frank) Alexander. The Exascale Computing Project has initiated its sixth Co-Design Center, ExaLearn, to be led by Principal

ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.

SECRETARY OF ENERGY RICK PERRY ANNOUNCES $1.8 BILLION INITIATIVE FOR NEW SUPERCOMPUTERS

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced a Request for Proposals (RFP), potentially worth up to $1.8 billion, for the development of at lea

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to Celebrate 25th Anniversary at SC17

The US Department of Energy's booth (#613) at SC17 will be the setting for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's 25th Anniversary celebration on November 13, at 7:15pm MST. The celebration, which will take place during the Opening Gala of the conference, is to feature a short video, brief remarks, and a toast.

Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Names Doug Kothe as Director

News Media Contact:  Mike Bernhardt, [email protected], 503.804.1714 For Immediate Release: September 20, 2017   Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Names Doug Kothe as Director OAK RIDGE, Tenn. –

Wired Magazine Takes a Look at ORNL’s Next Supercomputer

When Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory comes online next year, it will be the most powerful supercomputer in the country and perhaps in the world.

Summit Supercomputer: A Concrete Step Toward Exascale

Summit is the next leap in leadership-class computing systems for open science.

ORNL Researchers Turn to Deep Learning to Solve Science’s Big Data Problems

A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been awarded nearly $2 million over three years from the Department of Energy to explore the potential of machine learning in revolutionizing scientific data analysis.

Oak Ridge Computing Director Nichols on What Will Matter at Exascale

Featured ECP Lab Partner Update Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee is the largest US Department of Energy (DOE) science and energy lab and has been home to some

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