Speed, algorithm improvements make team finalist for Gordon Bell Prize

A team of researchers simulating high-temperature superconductors has topped 15 petaflops—or 15 thousand trillion calculations a second—on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Titan supercomputer. More importantly, they did it with an algorithm that substantially overcomes two major roadblocks to realistic superconductor modeling.

For their achievement, the team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and ORNL was named a finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize, awarded each year for “outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.”

Read the full story at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2013/11/12/superconductor-simulation-tops-15-petaflops-on-titan/.