Titan Tops "Top 500 List"

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities new computer, Titan, has been crowned the world's fastest computer by the "Top 500". For Articles on Titan, Click here

Associate Director Position Open

The Department is currently seeking exceptionally well qualified candidates for the position of Associate Director of the Office of Science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research to lead this program in developing and deploying high-performance computing hardware and software systems for science. To apply, click here.

ASCR's ESnet Recognized

For the second time in four years, ESnet has been named one of the year’s top government IT innovators by Information Week Government magazine. More

Professional Recognition for ASCR Researchers

Several ASCR researchers were recently recognized for their contributions to their fields (click the name for more information)

• Kathy Yelick, Rob Schreiber elected as ACM Fellows
• Paul Fischer elected a Fellow of the AAAS and
• Pavan Balaji (2012 DOE early career award winner) recently selected to this year's 40 under 40 list by Crain's Chicago Business.
• John Bell elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 1, 2012
• Wes Bethel (LBNL) and Jeffrey Vetter (ORNL) have been designated as "Distinguished Scientists" by ACM

ASCR's New Ultra-High Speed Network Will Keep America
On The Cutting Edge Of Innovation

The Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI), a $62 million ARRA funded project, will soon upgrade the Energy Sciences Network to 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps), about 10 times faster than most commercial Internet providers. ESnet allows thousands of DOE researchers to work with colleagues and partners all around the world. More »

ASCR INCITE Program Allocates Access to DOE Supercomputers

Sixty projects were awarded a total of 1.7 billion hours of computing time on some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers as part of the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The INCITE program, now in its ninth year, is the major means by which the scientific community gains access to these supercomputers. More »

ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) Program in the News

A recent "Digital Manufacturing Report" article highlights the high-risk, big payoffs of the ASCR ALCC program. The ALCC allocates up to 30% of the computational resources at NERSC and the Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge for special situations of interest to the Department's energy mission. Link to the to DMR article to learn more about the program.

Leveraging ASCR Investments in Software Tools to the Broad Computational Community

Barriers to adoption of HPC modeling and simulation by the industrial computational science community can be tackled by getting DOE software in the hands of independent software vendors (ISVs) via SBIR/STTR.
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Read about the awards in Digital Manufacturing Report