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OLCF’s 2025 in review

In 2025, high-performance computing and rapid advances in artificial intelligence pushed the boundaries of scientific discovery, accelerating progress across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Deep collaborations among leading academic, industrial, and government partners fueled major breakthroughs in areas such as simulating cellular machinery, accelerating AI, integrating quantum and classical computing…
Angela Gosnell
December 22, 2025
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Exascale’s New Frontier: EXAALT

PI: Danny Perez, Los Alamos National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That leap meant rethinking, reinventing and optimizing dozens of scientific applications…
Coury Turczyn
November 10, 2023
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Exascale’s New Frontier: ExaSMR

PI: Steven Hamilton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory In 2016, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (10¹⁸) or more calculations per second. That meant rethinking, reinventing, and optimizing dozens of scientific…
Coury Turczyn
August 23, 2023
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Predicting the Future of Fission Power

As renewable sources of energy such as wind and sun power are being increasingly added to the country’s electrical grid, old-fashioned nuclear energy is also being primed for a resurgence. For the past 20 years, fission reactors have produced a nearly unchanging portion of the nation’s electricity: around 20%. But…
Coury Turczyn
May 22, 2023