WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $4 million federal investment for 10 projects across 8 states that will harness the processing power of the world’s most powerful supercomputers—and the lab experts who operate them—to tackle today’s toughest manufacturing challenges, strengthen America’s manufacturing competitiveness, and move the country closer to an […]
HPC4EI: DOE Announces $3.4M Funding Opportunity and Awards $4M for Energy Innovation Projects
November 14, 2024 by
HPC4EI: DOE Announces Solicitation for Industry to Connect with National Laboratories on Energy Technologies
July 24, 2023 by
Washington, DC — The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new solicitation to connect industry partners with the high-performance computing (HPC) resources and expertise at DOE’s national laboratories to improve material performance and advance manufacturing processes for an equitable clean-energy future. Through the High-Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) initiative, selected teams will harness […]
HPC4Mfg: DOE Awards $2.3M for 8 Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Projects Using HPC
December 10, 2021 by
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding of $2.3 million for eight teams who will tap into the U.S. National Laboratories’ high performance computing (HPC) resources designed to help manufacturers streamline processes, increase productivity, and lower carbon footprints. Here’s the list of the selected projects. The selected projects will use the National Labs’ supercomputers […]
DOE’s HPC4EI Program, HPC for Manufacturing and Materials Development Companies, Opens to Applicants
May 5, 2021 by
The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program, consisting of two subprograms — for manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) and for materials (HPC4Mtls) — is now open to companies seeking access to HPC resources. DOE said companies can apply for dedicated supercomputing time and help from Argonne scientists to address their manufacturing and materials […]
HPC4Energy Innovation Program Funds Manufacturing Research
July 11, 2019 by
Today the High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation program (HPC4EI) announced the nine public/private projects awarded more than $2 million from the DOE, with aims of improving energy production, enhancing or developing new material properties and reducing energy usage in manufacturing. “We see increasing interest by both industry and the DOE Applied Energy Offices to leverage the world-class computational capabilities of leading national laboratories to address the significant challenges in improving the efficiency of our national energy footprint,” said HPC4EI Director Robin Miles.”
DOE powers Aluminum and Steelmaking Research through HPC4Manufacturing Program
March 8, 2019 by
Today the HPC4Manufacturing Program announced four federal funding awards for solving key manufacturing challenges in steelmaking and aluminum production through supercomputing. “Primary metals industries are significant energy users, so opportunities to reduce energy consumption in this area is of great interest to our sponsors,” said HPC4Manufacturing Director Robin Miles of LLNL. “Additionally, this program is helping U.S. steel makers produce the higher strength steels vital to light weighting the next generation of automobiles.”
DOE Selects 13 Projects to Advance Manufacturing with HPC
September 3, 2018 by
In this video from the 2016 HPC User Forum in Austin, Wayne O Miller from LLNL announces a new RFP for the HPC4mfg program. “Today the HPC4Mfg group at LLNL announced nearly $3 million for 13 projects to stimulate the use of high performance supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing. Manufacturer-laboratory partnerships help the U.S. bring technologies to the market faster and gain a competitive advantage in the global economy.”
HPC4Manufacturing Program Seeks Industry Proposals
February 1, 2018 by
The Department of Energy is seeking industry proposals for public/private projects aimed at applying high performance computing to industry challenges for the advancement of energy innovation. “We are seeing some significant successes with orders of magnitude reduction in simulation times and higher fidelity simulations that more closely match the reality of the manufacturing process. With this solicitation we plan to continue to expand the reach of our program to new companies to help solve new and different problems.”
HPC4Mfg Program Selects New Industry Projects
January 12, 2018 by
Today the DOE announced $1.87 million for seven projects to advance innovation in U.S. manufacturing through HPC. “The HPC4Mfg program leverages world-class technical expertise with high performance computing to tackle manufacturing challenges uniquely solved by computer modeling. By applying modeling, simulation, and data analytics to key manufacturing problems, the program can aid in decision-making, optimize processes and design, improve quality, predict performance and failure, reduce or eliminate testing, and shorten the time to market.”
HPC4Mfg Program Seeks New Projects
October 1, 2017 by
The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program in the Energy Department’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) announced today their intent to issue their fifth solicitation in January 2018 to fund projects that allow manufacturers to use high-performance computing resources at the Department of Energy’s national laboratories to tackle major manufacturing challenges.
