Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a news conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, has taken the top spot and is the third system to exceed the exascale […]
Exascale: Frontier Simulations Could Lead to a ‘Superdiamond’
August 1, 2024 by
The world’s fastest supercomputer helped researchers simulate synthesizing a material harder and tougher than a diamond — or any other substance on Earth. The study used Frontier, the HPE Cray EX supercomputing system at the Department of Energy’s Oak ….
ExaWind: Wind Turbine CFD Simulation on Frontier Exascale
July 31, 2024 by
The Exascale Comuting Project’s ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens of megawatt-class turbines spread across 30 square miles. Using the Frontier exascale supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the ExaWind team performed some of the highest fidelity wind energy simulations […]
Exascale: Frontier Supercomputer Used in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2M Electrons
July 18, 2024 by
The exascale- class Frontier supercomputer set a new standard for calculating the number of atoms in a molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than previous simulations of its kind, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the HPC system is housed. The simulation ….
MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation
July 2, 2024 by
LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. This grant will accelerate the development of GURU, MSBAI’s autonomous system that designed to reduce modeling and simulation setup time from hours to minutes. The project, titled “Autonomy […]
ORNL and SLAC Team Up for Breakthrough Biology Projects
May 15, 2024 by
Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, Frontier will provide high-speed analysis for LCLS-II’s structural biology data output Plans to unite the capabilities of two cutting-edge technological facilities funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science promise to usher in a new era of dynamic structural biology. Through DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI, initiative, the […]
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New Top500 List
May 14, 2024 by
In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of the new Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At ISC 2024 here in Hamburg, we learned that the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems, , the AMD/HPE-Cray Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ….
At ISC 2024: New Top500 List – Aurora Joins Frontier in Exascale HPC Club
May 13, 2024 by
At ISC 2024, Hamburg — Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion billion calculations/second) milestone ….
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: E3SM-MMF
February 27, 2024 by
“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Scientific Challenge Gauging the likely impact of a warming climate on global and regional water cycles poses one of the top challenges in climate change prediction. Scientists […]
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: LatticeQCD for Particle Physics
February 23, 2024 by
“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Science Challenge One of the most challenging goals for researchers in the fields of nuclear and particle physics is to better understand the interactions between quarks and gluons — […]
