On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, Argonne National Laboratory's Nicola Ferrier will co-lead the 4th workshop in the Brain Connectivity series,  co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative and DOE's Office of Science. Argonne's Tom Uram and Ian Foster will also participate in the free virtual workshop focused on connectome generation and data pipelines.

Learn how employees across Argonne, including ALCF’s Carissa Holohan, are helping to build a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment that supports and promotes gender equality and diversity.

The SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE21) is now underway! Argonne researchers are contributing to more than 100 conference activities this week, including invited talks, tutorials, the Broader Engagement Program, and the career fair.

Congrats to the many Argonne researchers recently recognized with DOE Secretary of Energy’s Honor Awards. Among the recipients, ALCF's Mike Papka and Katherine Riley were part of the team that mobilized Argonne supercomputing resources to support and accelerate COVID-19 research.

Today, the Khronos Group announced the ratification and public release of the SYCL™ 2020 final specification—the open standard for single source C++ parallel programming. SYCL is a key programming framework for the ALCF's upcoming exascale system, Aurora. “Our users will benefit from features in the SYCL 2020 specification. New features, such as support for unified memory (USM) and reductions, are important capabilities for programming high-performance-computing hardware,” said Nevin Liber, ALCF computer scientist.

In a new podcast from DOE's Exascale Computing Project, Brian Homerding of the ALCF discusses the efforts to prepare an earthquake simulation code for Argonne' upcoming exascale system, Aurora. The episode is the first in a new series that will highlight achievements and lessons learned in optimizing code to run efficiently on GPUs.

A new collaboration between ALCF, NERSC, and Codeplay Software will enhance LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities to help researchers develop high-performance applications that are portable across diverse compute architectures.

Argonne National Laboratory is hosting an exascale-themed Twitter chat at 2 pm (CT) on Wednesday, February 3. Join us at @argonne to learn how DOE's upcoming exascale supercomputers, including Argonne's Aurora system, will accelerate scientific discovery and innovation. Representatives from Argonne, Intel and HPE will be on hand to answer your questions.