Nov. 21, 2025 — ALCC is soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2026-2027 allocation year. For more information: ASCR ALCC Call for Proposals ASCR ALCC Proposal Information High performance computing machines available for the allocation cycle include Aurora, the exascale system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Polaris, the 44-petaflop accelerated system at […]
The Journey to Exascale
November 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
High-performance computing (HPC) has fundamentally changed the world of scientific research. Complex challenges that previously were unapproachable due to compute performance limitations and the massive power demands of legacy platforms can now be effectively addressed via powerful new advances in HPC. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is at the forefront of HPC, pushing its […]
HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration
October 20, 2025 by
A good autumnal morning to you! The future and the past of HPC-AI is much on our minds today as we observe great deeds done and ….
Frontier Exascale: CFD Methodology Gets Gordon Bell Nomination for Georgia Tech, NYU Researchers
October 3, 2025 by
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that Georgia Tech and NYU researchers used a new computational technique, called information geometric regularization (IGR), (see earlier coverage of this work) to conduct the largest computational fluid dynamics simulation of fluid flow. The simulations were run on the Frontier exascale-class HPC system at the Department of Energy’s Oak […]
Argonne Advances AI in STEM Education for Workforce Readiness
September 25, 2025 by
LEMONT, Ill., Sept. 24, 2025 — On September 19, nearly 200 STEM educators and academic leaders from across Illinois gathered at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory for the first AI STEM Education Summit, “One Ecosystem, Many Pathways – Building an AI-Ready STEM Workforce.” The summit brought together high school, community college and university […]
Chandrasekaran to Receive ACM Computing Honor
September 19, 2025 by
The University of Delaware announced that Professor Sunita Chandrasekaran has been named winner of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award ….
Ceremony Marks Launch of the Exascale Supercomputer JUPITER
September 5, 2025 by
Sept. 5, 2025 — The JUPITER exascale-class supercomputer was unveiled to the public today at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany in front of guests from politics, science, and industry. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst were among the attendees. The system, designed by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and in […]
Building Jupiter: An Exascale Supercomputer, and a Room to Put It In
September 4, 2025 by
Connecting 24,000 GPUs mounted in 125 racks, with 36,000 high performance network cables for a machine which uses 17MW running full tilt – and getting it all running smoothly as a single system is hard – but doing all that ….
Exascale HPC: El Cap Simulations Reveal ‘Hidden Worlds’
August 26, 2025 by
With the arrival of El Capitan, LLNL researchers are entering a new era of scientific simulation — one in which they can model extreme physical events with unprecedented resolution, realism and speed. From capturing the chaotic spray ….
Energy Secretary Wright to Visit Argonne Tomorrow for Aurora Exascale Dedication
July 15, 2025 by
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 […]
