Harnessing AI and exascale supercomputing, a research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has developed a computing framework to speed up the design of new proteins.
DOE Issues 2 $6M System Science Funding Opportunities
Nov. 5, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program announced its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The deadline for pre-applications is Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 5 pm ET; the dealine for applications is Thursday, March 13 at 11:59 pm ET. Learn more about […]
DOE and NNSA in Effort to Harness AI National Security Mission
WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, the White House issued a national security memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence. “Recognizing that advances at the frontier of AI will have significant implications for national security and foreign policy, the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are leading work to help understand and mitigate the risks […]
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.
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 ….
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 […]
Sandia: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Record Breakers Nominated for Gordon Bell Prize
Sandia National Laboratories announced today a new speed record in molecular dynamics simulation. A collaborative research team ran simulations using the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) processor and “raced past the maximum speed achievable on the world’s ….
HPC News Bytes 20240923 Podcast: Intel-Qualcomm, Responses to AI Energy Crisis, HPC-AI Beyond GPUs
A belated happy autumnal equinox to you! The white-water HPC-AI world produced major news over the past week, including: previously unthinkable Intel M&A reports, chips and software ….
January 14 Deadline: NSF $15M Funding Opportunity to Safeguard Open Source Ecosystems
Sept. 23, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation launched a $15 million funding opportunity to address vulnerabilities of open-source ecosystems. Preliminary proposals for the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) are due Tuesday,Jan. 14, 2025, by 5 p.m. (submitting organization’s local time). To learn more, read the Safe-OSE funding opportunity and register […]