DOE Announces 2024 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows

Four scientists have each been awarded $1 million in direct funding via the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows program. The 2024 DOE Office of Science Distinguished Fellows ….

HPC4EI Workshop to Be Held Aug. 20-22 at Livermore

In collaboration with U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), HPC4EI will hold an in-person workshop to review program operations and explore future directions. The workshop will be held at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]

DOE Announces System for Searching DOE IP

RICHLAND, Wash., July 31, 2024 — The US Department of Energy has created a database designed to make ideas, technologies, methods and software developed by DOE available in one place. DOE said it worked with software engineers and others at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on the Visual Intellectual Property Search database, or VIPS, designed to make […]

DOE and DARPA in Quantum Research Agreement

July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to move the needle on quantum computing. The MOU establishes a framework for planning and coordinating future research, development, engineering, and test and evaluation activities related to quantum computing. Part […]

DOE Announces AI for Science Roadmap

Washington, DC, July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced a roadmap for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) in which the agency and its 17 national labs “aims to build the world’s most powerful integrated scientific AI systems for science, energy, and national security, in collaboration with […]

MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation

LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. This grant will accelerate the development of GURU, MSBAI’s autonomous system that designed to reduce modeling and simulation setup time from hours to minutes. The project, titled “Autonomy […]

DOE ASCR July 22 Call for Papers: Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science

The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science (EECS). Key dates: July 22, 2024: Deadline for position paper submission August 2, 2024: Notification of position acceptance September 9-12, 2024: Workshop (greater Washington, DC area) Workshop Website: https://www.orau.gov/2024EECWorkshop Energy […]

@HPCpodcast: DOE’s Chalk Talks Lab Supercomputing Budgets, ECP’s Legacy and Women in HPC

The future of supercomputing isn’t what it used to be, and few know that better than Christine Chalk, federal program ….

DOE CSGF Announces Incoming 2024-25 Class

Ames, Iowa, June 14, 2024 — A record 40 students on the path to achieving doctorates in fields that emphasize use of computing and mathematics are now being welcomed into the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) program. The 2024-2025 incoming fellows will attend 24 U.S. universities as they learn to apply […]

Oak Ridge Lab: Researchers Use AI for Autonomous Discovery and Optimization of Materials

Researchers are developing ways to accelerate discovery by combining automated experiments, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. A novel tool developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that leverages those technologies has demonstrated that AI can influence materials synthesis and conduct associated experiments without human supervision. This autonomous materials synthesis tool uses pulsed laser deposition, or PLD, to deposit […]