The Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology (EVEREST) facility provides analysis and visualization of simulation data generated on the OLCF supercomputers.

The laboratory houses 3 computing systems: a distributed memory Linux cluster, a shared memory Linux node, and a shared memory Windows® node. The facility features 2 tiled display walls, a control desk with a touch panel interface, and a conference table with peripheral video inputs and outlets.

Twenty-five years ago, high-performance computing (HPC) in the United States stood at a crossroads. Established computing architectures were approaching their limits in performance and competiveness, while the country’s need for computing power to solve challenging problems in science, energy, and national security continued to grow.

Out of this period of technological transition, a new force in scientific computing emerged in the unlikely region of East Tennessee, a force that continues to shape the HPC landscape today.

In 2017, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is celebrating 25 years of leadership in high-performance computing. Since its founding as the ORNL Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) in May 1992, the center has consistently delivered supercomputers of unprecedented capability to the scientific community on behalf of the US Department of Energy (DOE). Scientists, in turn, have used these versatile systems to solve critical problems in areas as diverse as biology, advanced materials, climate, and nuclear physics.