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 […]
Frontier Exascale: CFD Methodology Gets Gordon Bell Nomination for Georgia Tech, NYU Researchers
October 3, 2025 by
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 ….
Oak Ridge Reports Largest CFD Simulation Achieved on Frontier
July 24, 2025 by
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted the largest-ever computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, simulation of high-speed compressible fluid flows on the Frontier exascale-class supercomputer, according to ….
5 Million Simulations: Frontier Exascale Supercomputer for Carbon-Fiber Material Science
June 20, 2025 by
Stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, carbon fiber is a staple in aerospace and high-performance vehicles — and now, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to make it stronger.
Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
April 2, 2025 by
PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. Leveraging the power of the Frontier exascale supercomputer, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, Ansys and energy company Baker Hughes scaled Fluent to 1,024 GPUs, offering unparalleled insight into […]
Quantum vs. Classical HPC: D-Wave Reports Quantum Supremacy on Materials Simulation
March 12, 2025 by
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a quantum advance published in the journal Science, confirming that its annealing quantum ….
Exascale: Argonne-led Team Trains AI to Take on Infectious Threats with Frontier and Aurora
February 26, 2025 by
ASCR, the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has released a report on the use of exascale -class supercomputers, Frontier and Aurora, using the combination of artificial intelligence tools with genomic data to improve preparedness for potential new pandemics. The large language models (LLMs) used in chat-based […]
HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry
February 17, 2025 by
A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s …
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’
February 5, 2025 by
“One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale – sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ….”
Vanguards of HPC-AI: ORNL’s Dr. Feiyi Wang – Unlocking HPC-AI Breakthroughs that Neither Could Do Alone
January 23, 2025 by
“The potential of combining HPC and AI to push scientific boundaries drives me to explore new ways of leveraging these technologies together to unlock breakthroughs that neither could achieve alone. It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of HPC and AI fuels my career path, allowing me to work at the forefront of scientific innovation.”
