Simulations helping to cut through time and expense of certifying new materials by digitally customizing the ideal alloy Titanium alloys serve as cornerstone materials for the aerospace industry — stronger and lighter than steel, resistant to rust and corrosion and resilient past the melting points of most other metals. Companies such as RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, […]
Los Alamos Announces Nvidia-HPE AI Supercomputer ‘Venado’
April 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Venado’s computing capacity will house 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips in the exascale-class HPE Cray EX supercomputer. The system will also use 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, making it the first large-scale system with Nvidia Grace CPU superchips deployed….
INCITE Call for Proposals for Access to Leadership-Class Supercomputers Open through June 14
April 10, 2024 by
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Proposals must be submitted between April 10 and June 14, 2024. Open to researchers from academia, industry and […]
ALCF User Community: Call for Argonne Art of Science Images, April 23 Deadline
April 10, 2024 by
Argonne National Laboratory has issued call for images for the 2024 Argonne Art of Science Contest.Submission deadline for science visualizations: Tuesday, April 23. For submission and prize details, visit this webpage. This is open to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility user community, The contest is accepting scientific visualizations of research created using ALCF computing resources. […]
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Issues Letter of Farewell as Director of DOE Office of Science
March 28, 2024 by
Following the news last week of her departure as director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science since May 2022, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has issued a letter of farewell to her agency and White House colleagues. Dr. Berhe is currently on leave from the….
Exascale Software and NASA’s ‘Nerve-Racking 7 Minutes’ with Mars Landers
March 28, 2024 by
NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order….
ALCF Announces Online AI Testbed Training Workshops
March 27, 2024 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a series of training workshops to introduce users to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed. The four individual workshops will introduce participants to the architecture and software of the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system, the Graphcore Bow Pod system, and the GroqRack […]
@HPCpodcast: Matt Sieger of OLCF-6 on the Post-Exascale ‘Discovery’ Vision
March 26, 2024 by
What does a supercomputer center do when it’s operating two systems among the TOP-10 most powerful in the world — one of them the first system to cross the exascale milestone? It starts planning its successor. The center is Oak Ridge National Lab, a U.S. Department….
Exascale Computing Project: Leveraging HPC and Neural Networks for Cancer Research
March 25, 2024 by
What happens when Department of Energy (DOE) researchers join forces with chemists and biologists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). They use the most advanced high-performance computers to study cancer at the molecular, cellular and population levels.
DOE Awards $5.2M to HPC for Energy Projects, Announces Intent for Spring 2024 Solicitation
March 12, 2024 by
March 11, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $5.2 million federal investment for 13 projects that will tap into the DOE national laboratories’ high performance computing (HPC) resources to help industry partners improve material performance, advance manufacturing processes, and reduce industrial emissions. These collaborative projects will address manufacturing and materials challenges […]
