Feb. 7, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. More information on the SCGSR program can be found […]
DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7
February 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’
February 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
“One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale – sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ….”
HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
February 3, 2025 by
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….
Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results
February 3, 2025 by
Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report and facilitation guide from the Move the Needle Project, which ran throughout 2024 and examined practical approaches to goal-setting, accountability, and continuous improvement focused on the people side […]
Argonne Releases Aurora Exascale Supercomputer to Researchers
January 28, 2025 by
“We’re ecstatic to officially deploy Aurora for open scientific research,” said Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. “Early users have given us a glimpse of Aurora’s vast potential. We’re eager to see how the broader scientific community will use the system to transform their research.”
Brookhaven Researcher’s ‘Exocortex’ for AI (Artificial Imagination)
January 24, 2025 by
Kevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials Group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It’s called a science exocortex — “exo” meaning outside and “cortex” referencing the information processing layer of the human brain.
Vanguards of HPC-AI: ORNL’s Dr. Feiyi Wang – Unlocking HPC-AI Breakthroughs that Neither Could Do Alone
January 23, 2025 by
“The potential of combining HPC and AI to push scientific boundaries drives me to explore new ways of leveraging these technologies together to unlock breakthroughs that neither could achieve alone. It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of HPC and AI fuels my career path, allowing me to work at the forefront of scientific innovation.”
HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs
January 16, 2025 by
On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..
At SC24: An Update from HPC-AI Skills Development Organization OpenACC
January 15, 2025 by
OpenACC helps the scientific R&D community develop their accelerated computing skills. Here are Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran of the Univ. of Delaware and OpenACC User Group Chair, and NVIDIA’s Jack Wells, Director of Higher Education and Research Computing ….
Berkeley Lab’s Jennifer Doudna Awarded National Medal of Technology & Innovation
January 7, 2025 by
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a professor at UC Berkeley, has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for ….
