Seattle and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, February 14, 2023 — Cloud platform Virtuozzo has announced a partnership with Rolos by Constructor group (formerly known as Schaffhausen Institute of Technology or SIT), to develop a research platform for scientists in industry and academia. The team has developed a platform within Virtuozzo Cloud, the public cloud powered by Virtuozzo Hybrid […]
Let’s Talk Exascale: The Why Behind HPC-class Scientific Simulations
This episode of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, features a discussion between ECP host Scott Gibson and Bronson Messer, who offers insights on computer modeling and simulation for advancing science. Messer is a distinguished scientist and director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing […]
DOE Office of Science Announces $400M in Research Funding Opportunities
Oct. 4, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an up to $400 million funding opportunity for basic research in support of DOE’s clean energy, economic, and national security goals. The funding will target the priorities of DOE’s Office of Science, including Advanced Scientific Computing Research, basic energy sciences, biological and environmental […]
LLNL, Oak Ridge Among Winners of $15M in DOE Funds for Extreme-Scale Scientific Computing
Sept. 19, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $15 million in funding for basic research to explore potentially high-impact approaches in scientific computing and extreme-scale science. DOE said the projects will address disruptive technology changes from emerging trends in high-end computing, massive datasets, artificial intelligence, and increasingly heterogeneous architectures such as neuromorphic […]
DOE: $35M for Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Partnership in Nuclear Physics
Sept. 6, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million for three joint projects in Nuclear Physics (NP) and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) via a partnership program of Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC). The NP SciDAC program brings together experts in nuclear physics research with experts in software development, applied […]
Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting July 21-22
July 21, 2022 — The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s program on Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), will take place on Thursday, July 21, and Friday, July 22, 2022, from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT (ending at […]
With 4X Boost, Cumulus-2 HPC Cluster Goes into Climate Research Action at Oak Ridge Atmospheric Facility
Oak Ridge, TN — Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a new, more powerful computer system to support climate data research conducted by the DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. Procured and managed by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at ORNL, the Cumulus-2 cluster is a Dell HPC system with 16,384 processing cores […]
DOE Announces $18.3M for Chemical Sciences Simulation and Modeling Research
July 8, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $18.3 million in funding for eight research projects to advance the development of sophisticated modeling and simulation software for the chemical sciences. Funding totals approximately $6 million in Fiscal Year 2022 dollars for projects of up to three years in duration, with outyear funding […]
AMD Expands HPC Fund to Aid Researchers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June 1, 2022 — AMD today announced the expansion of its High Performance Compute (HPC) Fund with the addition of 7 petaflops of computing power to assist global researchers working to solve the most demanding challenges. AMD also announced that the AMD HPC Fund will now integrate Xilinx Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Clusters (HACC) program, providing […]
DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 80 U.S. Graduate Students
May 3, 2022 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 80 graduate students representing 27 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2021 Solicitation 2 cycle. Through world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at DOE national laboratories, SCGSR prepares graduate students to enter jobs […]