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![Alex May, pictured above, is the first and only full-time data curator at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Credit: Carlos Jones and Wikimedia Commons, background/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-12/2023-P18433%20%281%29_0.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=DQKdmnrN)
![NEXTGENCOMPUTING students learned fundamental computing concepts through an HPC Crash Course before applying those concepts to an AI-based team project. From left to right, front row: Saahithi Gorti, Hannah Bao, Pragya Nidhi. Middle row: Kaiya Barnes, Brianna Andrews, Aninditha Nair, Olivia Heng, Disha Maheshwari, Emma Bohse, Sachi Griffin, Kevin Peng. Back row, Kieran Marci, Ronak Patel, Michael Batchelor, Matthew Tan, Richard Sances, Dhanvi Bharadwaj, Prabhash G C. Credit: ORNL](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-12/Summit%20Group%20Photo.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=MJR6GHh2)
This summer, ORNL welcomed more than 500 students to campus through the lab’s range of internship programs, which are offered in areas such as biology, national security and computing.
![Frontier’s exascale power enables the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model to run years’ worth of climate simulations at unprecedented speed and scale. Credit: Ben Hillman/Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-12/E3SM-MMF.png?h=21f5ce54&itok=dsj1Hwvc)
A 19-member team of scientists from across the national laboratory complex won the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2023 Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate Modeling for developing a model that uses the world’s first exascale supercomputer to sim
![Frontier’s exascale power enables the Energy, Exascale and Earth System Model-Multiscale Modeling Framework — or E3SM-MMF — project to run years’ worth of climate simulations at unprecedented speed and scale. Credit: Mark Taylor/Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-11/E3SM-MMF.png?h=21f5ce54&itok=UAeMXyqa)
The world’s first exascale supercomputer will help scientists peer into the future of global climate change and open a window into weather patterns that could affect the world a generation from now.
![Attendees of SMC23 pose for their annual group photo in downtown Knoxville, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-09/2023-P12048.jpg?h=b18108c1&itok=nPUCBfNi)
ORNL hosted its annual Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
![Members of the Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group in the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL developed the mixed-precision performance benchmarking tool OpenMxP. From left are group leader Feiyi Wang, technical lead Mike Matheson and research scientist Hao Lu. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-09/2023-P12429_0.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=lGABGcYq)
As Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer, was being assembled at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in 2021, understanding its performance on mixed-precision calculations remained a difficult prospect.
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The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at ORNL, is pleased to announce a new allocation program for computing time on the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer.
![Reuben Budiardja, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory computational scientist, worked with the early users who helped prepare Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer, for scientific operations. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-06/OLCF_Reuben_0.jpg?h=37d8d407&itok=xzEd2WaJ)
With the world’s first exascale supercomputer now fully open for scientific business, researchers can thank the early users who helped get the machine up to speed.