DOE Science Showcase - High-Performance Computing
Supercomputers or massively parallel high-performance computers (HPCs) are machines that employ very large numbers of processors in parallel to address scientific and engineering challenges. HPCs carry out trillions or even quadrillions of calculations each second - current high-performance computers are powerful enough to simulate some of the most complex physical, biological, and chemical phenomena. High-performance computing helps scientists understand these processes at unprecedented levels - from individual atoms for nanoscale engineering to the entire planet for global climate studies. Read about high-performance computer designs, characteristics, and capabilities in Dr. William Watson’s latest white paper In the OSTI Collections: High-Performance Computing.
Related Links of Interest
- Top500 List – Top 500 Supercomputer Sites
- INFOGRAPHIC: Everything You Need to Know About Supercomputers, Sarah Gerrity, DOE
- Supercomputers: Extreme Computing at the National Labs
- Lab Breakthrough: Supercomputing Power to Accelerate Fossil Energy Research video, Ben Dotson, DOE
- Computing, Energy.gov
- DOE Office of Science
- Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- DOE Office of ASCR Advisory Committee Exascale Report, March 2013
Primary facilities funded and managed by ASCR.
- Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
- The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
- Innovative & Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE)
- ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC)
High-performance computing information in DOE Databases
