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.

@HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List — How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared

The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday at the ISC conference in Hamburg with a new addition to the top 10 and with three exascale-class U.S. HPC systems on top. Tune in to this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems ….

TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC

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 ….

Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs

We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….

SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia

SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, “marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications,” the Dresden, German-based ….

DOE Announces ‘Doudna’ Dell-NVIDIA Supercomputer at NERSC

The new system, due in 2026, is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on gene-editing technology. Powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin ….

ISC 2025 Kicks Off Online Innovation Showcase

 May 27, 2025 — The ISC 2025 conference, scheduled for June 10-13 in Hamburg, announced it has unveiled its ISC 2025 Online Innovation Showcase. As of today, 14 organizations are participating in this showcase, presenting their most innovative solutions in a less than 15-minute presentation before ISC kicks off. “We think it is an effortless […]

IRI Coming into View: Berkeley and Oak Ridge Link Supercomputing Resources via Data Pipeline

The U.S. Department of Energy’s next-genertion leadership computing strategy features the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI), which aims to link the DOE’s vast experimental and HPC ….

Jack Dongarra Makes a Stand for Traditional HPC: US Lacks Plan, ‘Risks Falling Behind’

HPC community éminence grise Jack Dongarra has issued an opinion piece in the thought leadership publication The Conversation in which makes a stands for traditional HPC and declares that ….

NCSA’s Gropp, Argonne Researchers among Winners of 3 ACM Technical Awards

The Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the recipients of three prestigious technical awards. This year’s awardees are recognized for groundbreaking innovations ….