November 2023
Small packages, big rewards
Oak Ridge’s algorithms for exascale computers, a Gordon Bell Prize finalist at SC23, anticipates the arrival of next-generation nuclear power for climate-change mitigation.
Category Archives: Exascale Science
April 2022
Exascale rocks
A Berkeley Lab-led project will bring exascale supercomputing to bear on microscopic subsurface fissures, helping foresee issues with subterranean carbon storage.
December 2021
Shrinking big physics
An international team that wants to build small high-energy physics machines tries out its designs on Oak Ridge’s Frontier exascale computer.
December 2021
ExaStar power
A Berkeley Lab-led Exascale Computing Project team prepares to aim the world’s most powerful computers at the cosmos.
December 2021
Protein shakeup
Virus and other biology simulations will get a big boost from Oak Ridge’s Frontier exascale computer.
October 2021
Virtual wind farms
Next-generation wind-generated electricity gets a head start with DOE supercomputers.
November 2020
Climate on a new scale
DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model will harness the next level of supercomputer to explore big climate questions.
March 2019
Visions of exascale
Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora will take scientific computing to the next level. Visualization and analysis capabilities must keep up.
January 2017
Upscale computing
National labs lead the push for operating systems that let applications run at exascale.
October 2016
Argo: OS for exascale
For high-performance computing’s next wave, today’s humble operating system will have to assume new roles in synchronizing and coordinating tasks.