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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
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Supercharging battery research at Argonne with Aurora and the Advanced Photon Source

News science

By combining world-class capabilities in materials imaging at APS with powerful simulation, AI, and data analysis resources at ALCF, Argonne’s cutting-edge user facilities are helping to usher in a new era of battery innovation.

Turning materials data into AI-powered lab assistants

News science

University of Cambridge researchers are using ALCF supercomputers to develop domain-specific AI tools that aim to speed up materials discovery.

Diagram showing how ChemDataExtractor is used to build materials databases

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Source The Linux Foundation
Published 11/13/2023

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the High Performance Software Foundation

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Source HPCwire
Published 11/13/2023

Training of 1-Trillion Parameter Scientific AI Begins

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Published 11/13/2023

INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 75 high-impact projects

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Source Cerebras
Published 11/13/2023

Cerebras Systems Announces 130x Performance Improvement on Key Nuclear Energy Simulation over Nvidia A100 GPUs

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Source HPCwire
Published 11/13/2023

Training of 1-Trillion Parameter Scientific AI Begins

Type media hits
Source HPCwire
Published 11/13/2023

HPCwire Reveals Winners of the 20th Annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC23 Conference

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Source InsideHPC
Published 11/11/2023

Building a Diverse HPC Workforce at the ALCF

Type outreach
Published 11/10/2023

Building a diverse HPC workforce

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Published 11/10/2023

New international consortium formed to create trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science

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Source HPCwire
Published 11/09/2023

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Supercharging battery research at Argonne with Aurora and the Advanced Photon Source

Turning materials data into AI-powered lab assistants

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the High Performance Software Foundation

Training of 1-Trillion Parameter Scientific AI Begins

INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 75 high-impact projects

Cerebras Systems Announces 130x Performance Improvement on Key Nuclear Energy Simulation over Nvidia A100 GPUs

Training of 1-Trillion Parameter Scientific AI Begins

HPCwire Reveals Winners of the 20th Annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC23 Conference

Building a Diverse HPC Workforce at the ALCF

Building a diverse HPC workforce

New international consortium formed to create trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science

Argonne Researchers to Present Cutting-Edge Work at SC23