NCSA has long supported women in High-Performance Computing (HPC).  To that end, the Center served as  an academic sponsor of the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) in Orlando and sent team members from several areas to this year’s conference. Named after famed computer scientist Grace Hopper and organized by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and […]

Nov. 8, 2023 — Two teams that include scientists from U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been named finalists for the Association for Computing Machinery 2023 Gordon Bell Prize. This image shows the individual pins in a full-core nuclear reactor simulation, one of the first ever done. Image: Argonne National Laboratory. Both […]

This year’s fantastic Supercomputing 2023 was back in full form. Attendees seemed to be glad that the show was back in Denver, which was a preferred destination over last year’s show in Dallas. The post Supercomputing 2023: Odds and Ends from the Show appeared first on HPCwire.

Nov. 16, 2023 — Princeton University has launched a new Ph.D. program in Quantum Science and Engineering, providing graduate training in an emerging discipline at the intersection of quantum physics and information theory. Credit: Princeton University This new field of quantum information science may enable fundamentally new technology, including new types of computers that can […]

Fermionic atoms are atoms that obey the Pauli exclusion principle, which means that no two of them can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. This makes them ideal for simulating systems where fermionic statistics play a crucial role, such as molecules, superconductors and quark-gluon plasmas. The post Scientists in Austria Unravel the Potential of Fermions […]

Water, despite its simple molecular structure, behaves in ways that have long puzzled scientists. While it is universally recognized as essential to life, water’s anomalous properties present unique challenges for computational modeling. But in a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, scientists from UC San Diego have made a major stroke in simulating water’s phase […]

Accurately calculating interactions among electrons has been a significant obstacle to reliable material exploration and design through computer modeling. Recently, a University of Michigan-led international team demonstrated code that brought quantum mechanical accuracy for large systems into the range of today’s supercomputers. The Association for Computing Machinery has now recognized this breakthrough through the Gordon Bell […]

Supercomputing remains largely an on-premise affair for many reasons that include horsepower, security, and system management. Companies need more time to move workloads to the cloud, but the options are increasing. (See the recently posted HPC-AI forecast from Intersect 360 Research.) The post Scientific Computing Options Maturing in the Cloud appeared first on HPCwire.

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has allocated supercomputer access to a record-breaking 75 computational science projects for 2024 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program. DOE is awarding 60% of the available time on the leadership-class supercomputers at DOE’s Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to […]

Scientists have made an important step toward developing computers advanced enough to simulate complex natural phenomena at the quantum level. While these types of simulations are too cumbersome or outright impossible for classical computers to handle, photonics-based quantum computing systems could provide a solution. The post Scientists Edge Toward Scalable Quantum Simulations on a Photonic […]