Tag-Teaming Turbulence

Tag-Teaming Turbulence

Researchers used the world’s fastest supercomputer for open science to train an artificial intelligence model that captures magnetic turbulence within a plasma in unprecedented detail. Results from the model, trained on the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, could support research ranging from modeling a supernova to building the…

Matt LakinApril 20, 2026

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Frontier Supercomputer Hits New Highs in Third Year of Exascale

Two-and-a-half years after breaking the exascale barrier, the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory continues to set new standards for its computing speed and performance. The HPE Cray EX supercomputing system reported new highs for problem-solving speeds this week, updated for the TOP500 announcement at the International Conference…

Matt LakinNovember 18, 2024

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Protein Design on Demand

Researchers used the world’s fastest supercomputer to train an artificial intelligence model to draw up blueprints for the building blocks of life. The study earned the multi-institutional team a finalist nomination for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize, which honors innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science,…

Matt LakinNovember 14, 2024

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Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational…

Jeremy RumseyOctober 30, 2024

Researcher Giuseppe Barca looks at a molecular dynamics simulation on a computer screen.

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Frontier Quantum Chemistry Calculations Nominated to Win HPC’s Highest Prize

Researchers led by the University of Melbourne, Australia, have been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize in supercomputing for conducting 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…

Jeremy RumseyOctober 17, 2024

Map of the US as seen from space, encircled by a ring of streaming data that connects a supercomputer, a scientific detector, and molecules.

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Standing up the Nation’s Supercomputing Pipeline for Streaming Big Data in Real Time

Big science generates big data. But what happens when researchers produce more data than they can process? It’s actually becoming a problem for research facilities that generate so much data that only supercomputers can tackle the volume. To bridge the gap between experimental facilities and supercomputers, experts from SLAC National…

Jeremy RumseyOctober 14, 2024

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