Intel Announces Installation of Aurora Blades Is Complete, Expects System to be First to Achieve 2 ExaFLOPS

Intel today announced the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with 10,624 compute blades. Putting a stake in the ground, Intel said in its announcement that “later this year, Aurora is expected to be the world’s first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops … […]

U.S. Quantum Information Science Summer School Issues Call for Applications – April 28 Deadline

April 25, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Information Science Summer School (USQIS) is the first joint summer school facilitated by the five DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers:  C2QA, QSA, QSC, Q-NEXT, and SQMS. This first edition of the school will be a 10-day program co-organized by SQMS and QSC and […]

DOE: 2024 Fermi Award Call for Nominations

April 5, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a call for nominations for the 2024 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. The deadline to submit a nomination is Monday, July 10, 2023, 5 pm Eastern Time. Nominations must include a letter summarizing the candidate’s achievements, three to six letters of support, CV, and short bibliography. An independent […]

insideHPC-Hyperion Research Interview: Argonne’s Rick Stevens on the Future of Everything – U.S. Post-Exascale Strategy, AI for Science, HPC in 2040 and an Aurora Install Update

In this interview conducted on behalf of HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research, we spoke with Argonne National Laboratory’s Rick Stevens about the present and future of HPC. The starting point for this conversation is a presentation Stevens gave at a Hyperion event in Washington related to implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act and includes his insights on the post-exascale build-out of an integrated network of U.S. supercomputing capacity (the Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI). We then look at AI for science and the use of data-driven modeling and simulation, which shows the potential to deliver major performance gains for researchers….

DOE Seeks Proposals from National Labs for ‘High Performance Data Facility’

March 10, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a call for proposals to lead the High Performance Data Facility, a project to create a new scientific user facility specializing in advanced infrastructure for data-intensive science. The competition to lead the High Performance Data Facility is open to the Office of Science national laboratories. […]

DOE Announces $12M Quantum Testbed Funding Opportunity

March 1, 2023 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) has announced a $12 million quantum testbed funding opportunity. Agency contacts and more details, including eligibility and application information can be found here. The deadline for letters of intent is Friday, March 31, 2023 at 5 pm ET. The […]

DOE: Applications Open for $105M Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment Initiative

January 26, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $105 million for research in biopreparedness. This funding, provided by the Office of Science, will support fundamental research to accelerate breakthroughs in support of the Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) initiative. Applications are open to the DOE national laboratories. Partnerships with other institutions, including academia, […]

DOE and NSF to Expand Collaboration

Jan. 25, 2023 — Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will continue a longstanding collaboration on scientific and engineering research and enable increased partnership. “This MOU will allow us to strengthen the partnership between DOE and NSF. It will expand the capabilities of each […]

DOE: $16M Funding Opportunity for Complex Systems Machine Learning

Jan. 24, 2023 — The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has announced a $16 million funding opportunity for scientific machine learning for complex systems. The deadline for pre applications (required) is Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 5 p.m. ET; the deadline for applications is Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Here is […]

DOE Office of Science: $200M for Energy Earthshot Research Centers

Jan. 19, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $200 million for Energy Earthshot Research Centers (EERCs). This funding, provided by the Office of Science, will support fundamental research to accelerate breakthroughs in support of the Energy Earthshots Initiative. Applications are open to the DOE national laboratories. Partnerships with other institutions, including academia, other […]