Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Laboratory in Tennessee
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| October 16 2023 | Stephen Streiffer becomes the most recent director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
| 2022 | ORNL researchers completed the development of an extensive research plan for the US-ITER collaboration, detailing the laboratory's ongoing contributions to fusion energy research. |
| December 31 2022 | Thomas Zacharia's tenure as director concludes. |
| May 2022 | ORNL Frontier system broke the exascale barrier, achieving 1.102 exaflop/s using 8,730,112 cores. |
| January 2019 | ORNL announced a breakthrough in Pu-238 production, increasing annual production from 50 grams to 400 grams to support NASA's space exploration programs. |
| 2018 | Summit supercomputer was built, benchmarking at 122.3 petaFLOPS with 202,752 CPU cores, 27,648 Nvidia Tesla GPUs, and 250 Petabytes of storage. |
| July 1 2017 | Thomas Zacharia assumes the role of director. |
| November 2012 | Jaguar was upgraded to the XK7 platform, renamed Titan, and performed at 17.59 petaFLOPS, holding the number 1 spot on the TOP500 list. |
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