Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer

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

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

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

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’

“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

“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.”

insideHPC Vanguard: GE Aerospace’s Stephan Priebe — Pushing the Frontiers of Simulation

Dr. Stephan Priebe is a Senior Engineer in the Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab at GE Aerospace Research in Niskayuna, NY. He became involved with HPC and AI ….

HPC News Bytes 20241202: Do LLM’s Understand?, Agentic AI, Simulating the Universe, France Adding Reactors, TSMC 2nm Chips

A happy December start to you! From the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (7:38) romp through recent news, including: LLMs and “emergent” understanding, collaborative Agentic AI, Frontier exascale ….

Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for the project, “Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials.”  The members of the team are Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, […]

ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs And Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis.  The members […]