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Exascale multiphysics simulations for liquid metal fusion blankets

Science
In work recognized as a finalist for the 2026 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, a multi-institutional team used DOE's exascale supercomputers, including ALCF's Aurora, to carry out the largest high-order multiphysics simulations of a liquid-metal fusion breeding blanket to date.
Exascale Multiphysics Simulations for Liquid Metal Fusion Blankets

Scientific visualizations light up Chicago at ART on THE MART

Event
Running through Nov. 15, the new installation from Argonne and UIC takes viewers from atoms and the human body to hurricanes, black holes and the evolution of the universe, bringing simulation data to life at an extraordinary scale.
Where Data Becomes Light: The Beauty of Scientific Visualization
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Aurora supercomputer powers autonomous platform for complex chemistry simulations

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From Supercomputers to Scientific Collaborators: Argonne’s Vision for AI-Driven HPC

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ChemGraph Unlocks AI for Chemistry and Materials Science

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INCITE Program Awards Supercomputing Time to High-Impact Projects

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ALCF's DAOS storage system targets data demands of exascale science and AI

Exascale
DAOS delivers high performance across thousands of Aurora nodes to support data-intensive workloads ranging from massive simulations to AI model training.
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Agentic AI turns simple language into self-guided experimentation

Genesis Mission
With support from ALCF computing resources and AI services, the SYNAPS-I team demonstrated a new agentic AI platform that uses natural-language instructions to automate complex experimental workflows as part of the DOE Genesis Mission.
SYNAPS-I demonstration

ALCF summer students explore HPC, AI, and scientific computing

Outreach
This summer, undergraduate and graduate students collaborated with ALCF mentors on cutting-edge research projects, gaining valuable hands-on experience in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI).
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Expanding access to black hole simulation data

Science
ALCF’s Eagle storage system is extending the scientific impact of black hole accretion simulation data by supporting continued analysis, sharing, and new research across the astrophysics community.
A gallery of GRMHD simulations

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