Newswise Feature Channel: Supercomputing

New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:00:00 EST

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument used millions of galaxies and quasars to build the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Combining the DESI data with other experiments shows signs that the impact of dark energy may be weakening over time -- and the standard model of how the universe works may need an update.

DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:00:00 EST

A new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. The collection contains information on 18.7 million galaxies, quasars, and stars -- the largest dataset of its kind ever shared.

Scientists Lay Out Vision for AI-Based 'Labs of the Future'

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:30:53 EST

A workshop led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory sketched a road map toward a longtime goal: development of autonomous, or self-driving, next-generation research laboratories.Scientists have dreamed for generations of high-tech laboratories operated via robotics at the push of a button.

Supercomputing Illuminates Detailed Nuclear Structure

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:35:27 EST

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers have developed a new technique that predicts nuclear properties in record detail.

New Photon-Avalanching Nanoparticles Could Enable Next-Generation Optical Computers

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:00:15 EST

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon-avalanching nanoparticles. The breakthrough offers a path toward realizing smaller, faster components for next-generation computers.

Large-Scale Evolution Simulations on PSC's Neocortex Tackle Questions about Hypermutator Evolution

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:10:24 EST

In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan has used simulations on the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Neocortex system to find out why beneficial mutants rarely come to dominate real organisms.

ETRI, the First in Korea to Develop Supercomputer Accelerator SoC

National Research Council of Science and Technology — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:00:26 EST

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has developed an accelerator system-on-chip (SoC) named 'K-AB21'. The accelerator chip developed by the researchers measures 77mm x 67mm, and is fabricated through the 12-nanometer process.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Partners with OpenAI to Advance National Security

Los Alamos National Laboratory — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:35:36 EST

Los Alamos National Laboratory partners with OpenAI to advance national security

Argonne Releases Aurora Exascale Supercomputer to Researchers, Enabling Accelerated Science

Argonne National Laboratory — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:00:25 EST

With its Aurora exascale supercomputer, Argonne National Laboratory is providing researchers with a powerful tool to accelerate discoveries across many fields, including biology, chemistry and AI for science.

Mining the dark sky with the Aurora exascale supercomputer

Argonne National Laboratory — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:25:04 EST

As part of the Aurora Early Science Program, an Argonne team is using the lab's new Aurora exascale supercomputer and AI tools to perform simulations of the universe that aim to shed light on dark matter and dark energy.

Scaling up Neuromorphic Computing for More Efficient and Effective AI Everywhere and Anytime

University of California San Diego — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:20:41 EST

Neuromorphic computing--a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain's function and structure--needs to scale up if it is to effectively compete with current computing methods. In a review published Jan. 22 in the journal Nature, 23 researchers, including two from the University of California San Diego, present a detailed roadmap of what needs to happen to reach that goal.

This New Advanced Method Produces Highly Realistic Simulations of Fluid Dynamics

University of California San Diego — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 08:00:00 EST

Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have developed a groundbreaking method for generating highly realistic computer-generated images of fluid dynamics, in elements such as smoke. This research, conducted by the UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing, was presented at the prestigious SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 conference, where it received a Best Paper Honorable Mention for its contributions to computer graphics and physics-based simulation.

Enabling Breakthroughs and Building Foundations: The Office of Science's 2024 Year-in-Review

Department of Energy, Office of Science — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:40:09 EST

At the Department of Energy's Office of Science, 2024 brought big accomplishments enabled by decades of work as well as advances that are establishing the foundations for future research. From Nobel Prizes to a new exascale computer, the DOE's Office of Science is leading the way.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Interns to Represent U.S. at International Student Competition

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:45:11 EST

A team of interns from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been selected to represent the U.S. next year at a student competition at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC25) in Hamburg, Germany, in June 2025.

From advancing X-rays to unlocking exascale: Argonne highlights from 2024

Argonne National Laboratory — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:15:47 EST

As the year comes to a close, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory reviews some of its most notable achievements of 2024.

Calculation Sharpens Imaging of Protons' Insides

Department of Energy, Office of Science — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:15:58 EST

Nuclear scientists used a new theoretical approach to calculate a value essential for unraveling the three-dimensional motion of quarks within a proton. The researchers obtained a significantly more accurate picture of these internal building blocks' transverse motion. The work will aid in calculations of 3D motion of quarks and gluons in future collider experiments.

Record-Breaking Run on Frontier Sets New Bar for Simulating the Universe in the Exascale Era

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:40:25 EST

The universe just got a whole lot bigger -- or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is.In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used the fastest supercomputer on the planet to run the largest astrophysical simulation of the universe ever conducted.

Game-Changing Quantum Chemistry Calculations on Frontier Earn Gordon Bell Prize

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:40:30 EST

This year's Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize in supercomputing goes to researchers led by the University of Melbourne who used the Frontier supercomputer to conduct a quantum molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than any previous simulation of its kind.The team also includes researchers from AMD, QDX, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Gordon Bell Climate Prize Goes to KAUST Frontier Users' Exascale Climate Emulator

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:35:53 EST

The 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling has been awarded to a team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, who used the Frontier supercomputer to develop an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.

24s: A Businesslike Name for a 'High-Performing Machine'

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:00:54 EST

The latest addition to the computational arsenal of Jefferson Lab is an extraordinary machine with the admittedly ordinary name of "24s." The 24s cluster at Jefferson Lab will work to unlock the mysteries of the nucleus of the atom. It was funded by the Nuclear and Particle Physics LQCD Computing Initiative of DOE's Office of Nuclear Physics.