ALCF Issues AI for Science Program Call for Proposals, Feb. 27 Deadline

Jan. 20, 2026 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) invites proposals for a new collaboration and development program, called APEX, designed to fast-track novel applications of AI in science. This program seeks proposals that apply AI methods in new, creative, or unconventional ways within their domain, such as introducing new AI methods or bringing […]

Argonne Names 5 Distinguished Fellows for 2025

Argonne National Laboratory named five scientists as Argonne Distinguished Fellows in 2025. They are Seth B. Darling, Katrin Heitmann, Ken Kemner, Robert Ross and Temitope Taiwo.

Argonne Nuclear Energy Researchers Bachmann and Shaver Named to 40 Under 40 List

For the second consecutive year, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have been named to the American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear News’ 40 Under 40 list. Nuclear engineers Amanda Bachmann and Dillon Shaver ….

ALCF to Hold April INCITE GPU Hackathon, Jan. 31 Application Deadline

Dec. 10, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold its 2026 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon in April, an opportunity to work with mentors to prepare code and boost its performance for the upcoming INCITE call for proposals as well as DOE’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). Important Dates: January 31: Application Deadline February 14: Application […]

Argonne Researchers Win Lusk Best Paper Award at EuroMPI Conference

Five researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have won the Ewing ​“Rusty” Lusk Best Paper award at EuroMPI/USA 2025, held at the University of North Carolina in October. EuroMPI is an event for discussion of new developments and applications of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for high performance parallel computing. The award-winning paper, ​“Implementing True MPI Sessions and […]

Deploying Inference Services Webinar at ALCF Dec. 3

Nov. 24, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar showcasing the ALCF’s Inference Service on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Registration information can be found here. The facility’s inference services provides cloud-like access to diverse AI models—including large language models (LLMs)—on existing HPC clusters. ALCF’s Benoit Côté will demonstrate how to integrate the […]

HPC News Bytes 20251103: 4 Exascale HPC’s Coming to National Labs; NVIDIA, Nokia and 6G; Intel Said to Be in SambaNova Talks

Good November morning to you! It was a hefty HPC-AI news week last week, here’s a rapid ….

NVIDIA and General Atomics with Partners Build AI-Enabled Fusion Reactor Digital Twin

WASHINGTON, DC — NVIDIA announced that the company, along with General Atomics and a team of international partners have built an AI-enabled digital twin for a fusion reactor with interactive performance, with technical support from San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility […]

ALCF Virtual Event Oct. 15: Integrated Research Infrastructure for Experiment-Time Computing with Globus Tools

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a virtual event on Wednesday, Oct. 15, for the first webinar in the ALCF’s new Service-Enabled Science training series: ALCF On-Demand: Integrated Research Infrastructure for Experiment-Time Computing with Globus Tools. The session will be held from 11 am to noon Central Time. Registration information can be found here. […]

Fox Chase Cancer Center Scientists Awarded Access to Argonne HPC Resources

PHILADELPHIA (August 25, 2025) — Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center received a Director’s Discretionary Allocation Award from Argonne National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy. The allocation supports the Melanoma-Immune Checkpoint Blockade project (ICB), a Fox Chase initiative aimed at advancing research in melanoma immunotherapy. “These blockades are a type of immunotherapy […]