Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs

We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….

DOE Announces ‘Doudna’ Dell-NVIDIA Supercomputer at NERSC

The new system, due in 2026, is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on gene-editing technology. Powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin ….

Vanguards of HPC-AI: ALCF’s Victor Mateevitsi Advances Immersive Collaboration Between People and AI

Victor Mateevitsi is an Assistant Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratories (ANL,) where he is a member of the Argonne Leadership Computing ….

Owkin Launches K Navigator, Agentic Co-pilot for Biomedical Research

New York & Paris, 6 May 2025. Owkin, an agentic AI company, has launched K Navigator, an AI-powered research co-pilot designed to revolutionize biomedical science. K Navigator is an agentic playground where researchers can explore, refine, and validate hypotheses, accelerating the quality and pace of their discoveries. With K Navigator, Owkin moves closer to its […]

AI Agents Drive Autonomous Research at PNNL

Researchers at PNNL are building a proof-in-concept agent-based platform that incorporates different commercially available AI models and several tools to accelerate innovation in an area of chemistry known as catalysis.

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Dr. Sharlotte Kramer — Pushing Forward in Materials Modeling

Dr. Sharlotte Kramer is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and researcher in Sandia’s Structural Mechanics Laboratory. She first ….

How GenAI Is Changing Work at a National Lab

At science organizations like national laboratories, the use of generative AI has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery in critical areas. But with new tools come new questions: How can science organizations ….

University of Edinburgh Installs Cerebras AI Cluster

The University of Edinburgh has announced the installation of an AI cluster consisting of four CS-3s using Cerebras’s 3rd generation of Wafer Scale Engine processors Operated by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the university’s Edinburgh International Data Facility, the new cluster follows previous Cerebras CS-1 and CS-2 systems. It is part of the […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry

“HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry … on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ….”

Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Condemns Mass Firings of Science Agency Employees

As the Trump Administration with Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) seeks to cut federal government employee roles, “probationary employees” (those who have not held jobs long enough to garner full civil ….