DOE Issues $75M SciDAC Funding Opportunity

Washington, DC, Dec. 20, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC), under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, is announcing that $75 million is available to support large multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams for the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes, as part of the SciDAC Program. Learn more about this opportunity […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Siva Rajamanickam — AI for Science That ‘Outpaces Predictions’

“I am passionate about working in the broad areas of machine learning for science, codesign of algorithms and architectures, performance portable algorithms, and combinatorial scientific computing. I focus on ….”

NASA Awards Quantum Computing Inc. Contract for Phase Unwrapping Using Dirac-3 Photonic Optimization Solver

HOBOKEN, N.J., Dec. 17, 2024 — Quantum Computing Inc. ((Nasdaq: QUBT), a photonics and quantum optics technology company, today announced that the company has been awarded a prime contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (“NASA”) Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said it will apply its entropy quantum optimization machine, Dirac-3, to support NASA’s […]

DOE: 10 National Labs to Establish Semiconductor Manufacturing Institute

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 17, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that 10 of its national labs will establish the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins USA (SMART USA) Institute, a manufacturing institute intended to support domestic semiconductor production through advanced digital twin technology. SMART USA will leverage the digital twin, or […]

NSF Launches 6 Quantum Pilot Projects

Dec. 16, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched six pilot projects “to bridge scientific gaps between current quantum technological capabilities and those needed to fully harness quantum properties of energy and matter for practical uses,” the NSF said. Click HERE to learn more. The six projects join five others that the agency announced in […]

Introducing the insideHPC Vanguards: Tomorrow’s HPC-AI Leaders Taking on Today’s Big Challenges

With this profile of Argonne’s Bethany Lusch, insideHPC begins a new series called The Vanguards, intended to spotlight up-and-coming thought leaders, creative thinkers and innovators in HPC-AI, in scientific and technical ….

insideHPC Vanguard: LLNL’s Kathryn Mohror — A Passion for Managing Scientific Data

Kathryn Mohror was introduced to HPC in 2002 as a graduate student at Portland State University, where she studied new remote memory access features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). She got hooked on achieving the best performance possible ….

HPC Helps Researchers Boost Tree Growth and Photosynthesis

A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the field and by as much as 200 percent in the greenhouse.

insideHPC Vanguard: GE Aerospace’s Stephan Priebe — Pushing the Frontiers of Simulation

Dr. Stephan Priebe is a Senior Engineer in the Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab at GE Aerospace Research in Niskayuna, NY. He became involved with HPC and AI ….

DOE Announces Research, Technology and Economic Security Framework

Dec. 2, 20224 — For applicants and recipients of Department of Energy (DOE) financial assistance and loan funding, a newly published “Research Technology and Economic Security Framework” highlights DOE’s goals, process, high-level risk factors, and commitment to mitigation when assessing RTES risk. This framework codifies a harmonized approach across all DOE/NNSA funding offices, while also […]