Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for the project, “Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials.”  The members of the team are Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, […]

ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs And Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis.  The members […]

DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at academic institutions. Total funding is $31 million for projects lasting up to three years in duration. The list of projects […]

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 computing. These exceptional contributors to the world of HPC-AI are helping blaze new trails, drive change and take on significant leadership positions. They serve […]

Nominations Open for 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award

HAMBURG, Germany, October 21, 2024 – The ISC Conference announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. The confeerene encourages community members to nominate early-career researchers they consider to have significantly contributed to scientific progress in their research fields. Nominations will close on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The guidelines […]

Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design

A multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows and GPU-acceleration with the intent to advance scientific innovation and revolutionize digital design.

Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….

HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?

A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism

Nov. 11 Deadline: ASCR Announces 2025 Leadership Computing Challenge

Oct. 7 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to DOE, with emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff scientific campaigns enabled via high-performance computing (HPC) in areas  related to the DOE mission, that respond to national emergencies, or that broaden the community of researchers […]

Nov. 14 Deadlinefor 2 DOE ASCR Scientific Computing Review Panels

Oct. 7, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced that Thursday, Nov. 14 is the deadline for two scientic computing review panels. Notice of Funding Opportunity DE-FOA-0003432 contains submission requirements for: Randomized Algorithms for Combinatorial Scientific Computing This topic area is highlighted in Section 3.3 of the ASCR […]