How one national lab is getting its supercomputers ready for the AI age
As the Biden administration pushes to invest in AI, the Department of Energy is turning to its fleet of supercomputers, including Frontier, the world’s fastest.
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NOAA supercomputer gets a 20% boost to help make better weather predictions
NOAA's forecast system can now process 29 quadrillion calculations per second.
Oak Ridge National Lab officials view new innovation push as modern day ‘Manhattan Project’
During her first stop on a four-state, technology-focused tour, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks heard from multiple senior Oak Ridge lab officials that the massive investments from…
DOD awards $699M contract to support supercomputing resource centers
BAE Systems has been tapped to supply a variety of services and capabilities to bolster high performance computing (HPC) efforts across multiple military components.
Oak Ridge lab leader says further investment key to U.S. leadership in supercomputing
Researcher Georgia Tourassi warns that without additional funding scientific innovation could stagnate.
New AI consortium for first responders fuses efforts from DOE, JAIC and Microsoft
The project will focus on getting technology to state and local first responders to better track and respond to natural disasters.
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Supercomputing consortium adds members as number of coronavirus projects increases, too
AMD, NVIDIA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Wyoming Supercomputing Center have joined the growing group. A White House official the consortium has provided computing for…
Supercomputing consortium further solidifies White House partnership with tech on coronavirus response
Government, industry and academic partners' 16 systems will provide a combined 330 petaflops of supercomputing capacity for select COVID-19 researchers.
DOE creates an AI office to capitalize on the technology’s ‘Golden Age’
The office will "transform DOE into a world-leading AI enterprise," but there are few details available beyond that.
Department of Energy puts AI to biomedical use
The agency started a public-private partnership with Weill Family Foundation seeking breakthroughs addressing neurological disorders like traumatic brain injuries using supercomputing.