Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs

We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….

IRI Coming into View: Berkeley and Oak Ridge Link Supercomputing Resources via Data Pipeline

The U.S. Department of Energy’s next-genertion leadership computing strategy features the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI), which aims to link the DOE’s vast experimental and HPC ….

DOE Announces Outstanding U.S. Doctoral Students Office of Science Graduate Research Program

May 14 2025 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has selected 79 PhD students from 56 universities and 29 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. A list of the 79 awardees for this selection, their institutions, host DOE laboratory/facility, and priority research areas of projects can be […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry

“HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry … on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ….”

Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Condemns Mass Firings of Science Agency Employees

As the Trump Administration with Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) seeks to cut federal government employee roles, “probationary employees” (those who have not held jobs long enough to garner full civil ….

DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7 

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 Announces $625M Quantum Research Funding Opportunity

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) announced that $625 million is available to support National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. These centers, which are multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary teams, are intended to accelerate the transformational advances in basic science ….

Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting to be Held Jan. 16-17

The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s program on Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), will take place on Thursday, January 16 from 10 AM – 5 PM EST, and Friday, January 17 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST via […]

DOE ASCR: $35M Available for HPC Data Management, Proposal Deadline May 13

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, announced that $35 million dollars is available to support the advancement of high-performance computing (HPC) data management, storage, and scientific visualization that will help enable the development of the next-generation energy-efficient computing systems and approaches enabling accelerated scientific discovery. Learn more […]

DOE Releases Report on Data Center Electricity Demand

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 20, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the publication of the 2024 Report on U.S. Data Center Energy Use produced by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) which outlines the energy use of data centers from 2014 to 2028. The report estimates that data center load growth has tripled […]