A new study by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks at some of the influences that could be driving the increasingly severe weather over Pakistan. Published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, the study analyzed over 40 years of data and found that natural climate variability, which includes factors such as sea […]
New Study Reveals the Influence of Natural Climate Drivers on Extreme Monsoons in Pakistan
October 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Frontier and the Oak Ridge Team are Celebrating Exascale Day
October 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Exascale computing is transforming our ability to solve some of the world’s most difficult and important problems. On October 18, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is celebrating the fifth National Exascale Day. The holiday was created in 2019 as an initiative of DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and Cray, […]
Exascale Day 2023: The Exascale Computing Era Is Here.
October 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
With the delivery of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first exascale system, Frontier, in 2022, and the upcoming deployment of Aurora and El Capitan systems by next year, researchers will have the most sophisticated computational tools at their disposal to conduct groundbreaking research. Exascale machines can perform more than a billion billion calculations per […]
Argonne Deploys New Groq System to ALCF AI Testbed, Providing AI Accelerator Access to Researchers Globally
October 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LEMONT, IL, October 17, 2023 — Groq, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory announced today that Groq hardware is now available to researchers through the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed. The ALCF is a DOE Office of Science user […]
Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale and Beyond
October 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
The exascale computing era is here. With the delivery of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first exascale system, Frontier, in 2022, and the upcoming deployment of Aurora and El Capitan systems by next year, researchers will have the most sophisticated computational tools at their disposal to conduct groundbreaking research. Exascale machines, which can perform […]
Exascale Drives Industry Innovation for a Better Future
October 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
“Exascale is a massive accelerator for technology, productivity, engineering, and science.” Outside the high-performance computing (HPC) community, “exascale” may seem more like fodder for science fiction than a powerful tool for scientific research. Yet, when seen through the lens of real-world applications, exascale computing goes from ethereal concept to tangible reality with exceptional benefits. Imagine […]
ALPINE/zfp Addresses Analysis, Visualization and Data Reduction Needs for Exascale Science Applications
October 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
With the advent of the exascale supercomputing era, computational scientists can run simulations at higher resolutions, add more detailed physical phenomena, increase the size of the physical problems, and couple multiple codes spanning both physical and temporal scales. These exascale simulations generate ever-increasing amounts of data. The Data and Visualization efforts in the US Department […]
Argonne’s Aurora Supercomputer Set to Supercharge Materials Discovery
October 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Researchers are preparing to leverage Argonne’s exascale supercomputer and AI to speed up the search for new materials for batteries, catalysts and other applications. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is building one of the nation’s first exascale systems, Aurora. To prepare codes for the architecture and scale of the new supercomputer, […]
Building El Capitan: How LLNL’s Exascale Supercomputer Came to Be (VIDEO)
October 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
When LLNL’s next-generation supercomputer El Capitan is deployed in 2024, it will likely be the most powerful computing machine in the world, delivering more than two quintillion floating-point operations per second (2 exaFLOPs) in service of its national security missions. Once fully operational, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) first exascale supercomputer will perform critical […]
