Argonne National Laboratory today announced a PDF parser that the lab said could speed up the creation of AI systems trained on scientific literature, leading to better AI research assistants, improved scientific discovery ….
Opinion: Investing in Scientific Software as Ecosystem Infrastructure Should Be a National Imperative
August 20, 2025 by
To ensure the nation’s socio-economic well-being in this new, uncharted era of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), the rapid and accurate advancement of scientific discovery ….
Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs
June 6, 2025 by
We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….
Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Condemns Mass Firings of Science Agency Employees
February 27, 2025 by
As the Trump Administration with Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) seeks to cut federal government employee roles, “probationary employees” (those who have not held jobs long enough to garner full civil ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’
February 5, 2025 by
“One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale – sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ….”
insideHPC Vanguard: LLNL’s Kathryn Mohror — A Passion for Managing Scientific Data
December 12, 2024 by
Kathryn Mohror was introduced to HPC in 2002 as a graduate student at Portland State University, where she studied new remote memory access features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). She got hooked on achieving the best performance possible ….
E4S: Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack Discussions and Demos at SC24
November 12, 2024 by
Nov. 11, 2024: The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) Project is supported by the US Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Research Office and is a legacy of Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The packages distributed with E4S contain contributions from hundreds of open source community developers. The top-level packages are listed on the E4S Product Information page These […]
Nov. 14 Deadlinefor 2 DOE ASCR Scientific Computing Review Panels
October 7, 2024 by
Oct. 7, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced that Thursday, Nov. 14 is the deadline for two scientic computing review panels. Notice of Funding Opportunity DE-FOA-0003432 contains submission requirements for: Randomized Algorithms for Combinatorial Scientific Computing This topic area is highlighted in Section 3.3 of the ASCR […]
DOE ASCR July 22 Call for Papers: Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science
July 2, 2024 by
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science (EECS). Key dates: July 22, 2024: Deadline for position paper submission August 2, 2024: Notification of position acceptance September 9-12, 2024: Workshop (greater Washington, DC area) Workshop Website: https://www.orau.gov/2024EECWorkshop Energy […]
Consortium for Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) to Hold 11 Virtual Sessions June 11-13
May 21, 2024 by
WASHINGTON, DC. — The recently established Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) has announced 11 virtual sessions on scientific software, scheduled for June 11 – 13, 2024. The virtual sessions, labeled the 2024 CASS Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days, are sponsored by CASS and hosted by the Partnering for Scientific Software Ecosystem Stewardship (PESO) project, a member team of […]