January 13, 2026 — The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is accepting proposals until March 16 for Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) partnership projects to prepare modeling and simulation, data-intensive, workflow, and AI applications for highly effective use on the OLCF system to be named Discovery that will arrive in 2028. Applications will be […]
OLCF Issues Call for Mod/Sim Proposals for Next-Gen ‘Discovery’ Supercomputer, March 16 Deadline
Oak Ridge, NVIDIA, HPE Team to Integrate Quantum, AI and HPC for Science
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA and HPE will seek to open insights into quantum computing and identify strategies ….
HPC News Bytes 20251103: 4 Exascale HPC’s Coming to National Labs; NVIDIA, Nokia and 6G; Intel Said to Be in SambaNova Talks
Good November morning to you! It was a hefty HPC-AI news week last week, here’s a rapid ….
TIME Names Quantum Brilliance and Quoll System at ORNL for a Best Invention of 2025
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 9, 2025 – Diamond-based quantum technology company Quantum Brilliance announced its room-temperature diamond cluster system has been included in TIME Best Inventions of 2025, its annual list of “extraordinary innovations changing our lives.” A partnership between Quantum Brilliance and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) enabled on-premises integration of the novel Quoll system […]
Frontier Exascale: CFD Methodology Gets Gordon Bell Nomination for Georgia Tech, NYU Researchers
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 […]
IQM to Integrate Quantum Computer into Oak Ridge Lab’s HPC Systems
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today announced it has selected IQM Radiance as its first purchased on-premises quantum computer to be integrated into high-performance computing (HPC) systems at ORNL.
Oak Ridge Reports Largest CFD Simulation Achieved on Frontier
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
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
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 Advantage ‘On Paper’: Oak Ridge Tests a Quantum Computing Approach for Fluid Dynamics
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. For the test problem, the research team ….












