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 […]
Frontier Exascale: CFD Methodology Gets Gordon Bell Nomination for Georgia Tech, NYU Researchers
October 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Quantum Brilliance and ORNL in Quantum-Classical HPC Collaboration
September 2, 2025 by
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Quantum Brilliance, has installed a Quantum Brilliance computer system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Lab staff will use ORNL’s first on-site, commercial ….
IQM to Integrate Quantum Computer into Oak Ridge Lab’s HPC Systems
August 19, 2025 by
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
July 24, 2025 by
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
June 20, 2025 by
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.
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 ….
