Connecting with Computational Science: Creating a Supercomputing Community

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is home to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility that houses some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. These powerful tools are accelerating the pace of discovery and helping scientists understand vast amounts of data faster than ever before, but there can be a learning curve to using supercomputers. It takes a team of researchers with specialized skills to help harness the full potential of these awesome, data-crunching machines.

In this video series, you’ll meet experts from Argonne’s Computational Science (CPS) Division who specialize in code migration for graphics processing units (GPUs), machine learning, modeling, simulation and domain science. Their first-hand experience at the bleeding edge of high-performance computing can help improve the speed, accuracy, efficiency of working on a supercomputer so that researchers can solve some of science’s biggest challenges.

Accurate simulations will help accelerate the speed of innovation and design things that have never been built or tested before. But it takes a team of collaborators to make sure that code can keep pace with advances in supercomputers. In this video, computational scientist Paul Romano shares how his expertise with Open MC and the Monte Carlo method helps researchers ensure that their simulations will work quickly and efficiently on today’s GPUs-based supercomputers. He’s calling all potential collaborators to join the community.

ABOUT ARGONNE

Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems, advance America’s scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit the Office of Science website - https://​ener​gy​.gov/​s​c​ience