Opinion: Investing in Scientific Software as Ecosystem Infrastructure Should Be a National Imperative

To ensure the nation’s socio-economic well-being in this new, uncharted era of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), the rapid and accurate advancement of scientific discovery ….

DOE Office of Science Accepting Graduate Student Research Awards Applications, Nov. 5 Deadline

Aug. 13, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 2 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET. More information on the SCGSR program […]

Energy Secretary Wright to Visit Argonne Tomorrow for Aurora Exascale Dedication

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Secretary of Energy Chris Wright will travel to Lemont, Illinois, on tomorrow to visit Argonne National Laboratory and participate in the dedication of the Aurora exascale supercomputer. Secretary Wright will deliver remarks, join Argonne leadership and partners for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Media must arrive no later than […]

DOE ASCR Awards 38 Million HPC Node Hours

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science today announced that it will award over 38 million node hours to 56 scientific projects under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. For the 2025 awards, DOE selected projects based at 14 unique universities, 10 laboratories, and eight industry partners. Details […]

National Lab’s Machine Learning Project to Advance Seismic Monitoring Across Energy Industries

A new initiative designed to revolutionize seismic monitoring and forecasting using real time, advanced machine learning (ML) technologies is coming to the West Texas/New Mexico area. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund awarded $1.8 million in funding to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The project is known as RECONNECT, or the Real-time […]

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 […]

DOE Identifies 16 Federal Sites for Data Center and AI Infrastructure

GOLDEN, CO, April 4, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to co-locate data centers and new energy infrastructure on DOE lands. DOE has released a Request for Information (RFI) to inform possible use of DOE land for artificial intelligence infrastructure development to support growing demand for data centers. DrfiOE has identified 16 […]

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 ….”