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AERIS Earth systems model pushes AI for science to new heights

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Built and trained on ALCF’s Aurora supercomputer, AERIS, a billion-parameter Earth system model, produced stable forecasts on seasonal scales to 90 days. The team’s work is a finalist for the prestigious Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate Modeling.

Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer drives groundbreaking simulations to explore how light shapes quantum materials

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Using ALCF's Aurora supercomputer, researchers from USC performed simulations of light-matter interactions in quantum materials at an unprecedented scale and level of detail. The team’s work is a finalist for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize.

Photo-switching of a ferroelectric nanoscale structure in lead titanate

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Source NVIDIA
Published 10/28/2025

NVIDIA and General Atomics Advance Commercial Fusion Energy

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NVIDIA and Partners Build America’s AI Infrastructure and Create Blueprint to Power the Next Industrial Revolution

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Published 10/28/2025

Energy Department Announces New Partnership with NVIDIA and Oracle to Build Largest DOE AI Supercomputer

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Published 10/28/2025

Argonne expands nation’s AI infrastructure with powerful new supercomputers and public-private partnerships

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Published 10/28/2025

NVIDIA and Oracle to Build US Department of Energy’s Largest AI Supercomputer for Scientific Discovery

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Published 09/30/2025

Pushing the boundaries of HPC and AI: A Q&A with Varuni Katti Sastry

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Published 09/30/2025

Next generation of exascale computing experts inspired by speakers, hands-on learning at Argonne training program

ALCF's Nathan Nichols presents at ATPESC 2025

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Published 09/30/2025

ALCF summer students gain hands-on experience with supercomputing and AI research projects

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Published 09/23/2025

How Scientists Are Teaching AI to Understand Materials Data

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Published 09/19/2025

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AERIS Earth systems model pushes AI for science to new heights

Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer drives groundbreaking simulations to explore how light shapes quantum materials

NVIDIA and General Atomics Advance Commercial Fusion Energy

NVIDIA and Partners Build America’s AI Infrastructure and Create Blueprint to Power the Next Industrial Revolution

Energy Department Announces New Partnership with NVIDIA and Oracle to Build Largest DOE AI Supercomputer

Argonne expands nation’s AI infrastructure with powerful new supercomputers and public-private partnerships

NVIDIA and Oracle to Build US Department of Energy’s Largest AI Supercomputer for Scientific Discovery

Pushing the boundaries of HPC and AI: A Q&A with Varuni Katti Sastry

Next generation of exascale computing experts inspired by speakers, hands-on learning at Argonne training program

ALCF summer students gain hands-on experience with supercomputing and AI research projects

How Scientists Are Teaching AI to Understand Materials Data

Argonne: Turning Materials Data into AI-Powered Lab Assistants