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.
5 Million Simulations: Frontier Exascale Supercomputer for Carbon-Fiber Material Science
June 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC
June 10, 2025 by
The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany, shows an expanding European presence among the top ….
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 […]
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.”
HPC Helps Researchers Boost Tree Growth and Photosynthesis
December 9, 2024 by
A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the field and by as much as 200 percent in the greenhouse.
HPC News Bytes 20240722: DOE’s Post-Exascale RFP, Chess Puzzle, CoreWeave’s New Energy Source, Ceramic-on-Glass Storage
July 22, 2024 by
Good mid-summer morning to you! It may be vacation season but the world HPC-AI never takes a break. Here’s a quick (5:42) run through the news: ORNL’s RFP for post-exascale supercomputer ….
RFP Opens for ORNL’s Next-Gen HPC, 3-5x Speed-Up over Frontier Expected, Aug. 30 Deadline
July 21, 2024 by
The Department of Energy has released a request for proposals inviting vendors to submit plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Lab’s exascale supercomputer, Frontier. Vendors have until Aug. 30, 2024 ….
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 ….
Exascale: SUPERLU/STRUMPACK Solvers Get Frontier Upgrade
July 10, 2024 by
“Before (the Exascale Computing Project), both packages had very little support for GPUs. We could get some benefit from running on a single GPU, but without updating the code, even 10 GPUs wouldn’t make it run much faster. We had to redesign a lot of algorithms ….”
@HPCpodcast: DOE’s Chalk Talks Lab Supercomputing Budgets, ECP’s Legacy and Women in HPC
June 26, 2024 by
The future of supercomputing isn’t what it used to be, and few know that better than Christine Chalk, federal program ….
