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A 19-member team of scientists from across the national laboratory complex won the Association for Computing Machineryâs 2023 Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate Modeling for developing a model that uses the worldâs first exascale supercomputer to simulate decadesâ worth of cloud formations.

A team of eight scientists won the Association for Computing Machineryâs 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for their study that used the worldâs first exascale supercomputer to run one of the largest simulations of an alloy ever and achieve near-quantum accuracy.

The team that built Frontier set out to break the exascale barrier, but the supercomputerâs record-breaking didnât stop there.

Making room for the worldâs first exascale supercomputer took some supersized renovations.

Researchers used the worldâs first exascale supercomputer to run one of the largest simulations of an alloy ever and achieve near-quantum accuracy.

The worldâs first exascale supercomputer will help scientists peer into the future of global climate change and open a window into weather patterns that could affect the world a generation from now.

The Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű announced the establishment of the Center for AI Security Research, or CAISER, to address threats already present as governments and industries around the world adopt artificial intelligence and take advantage of the benefits it promises in data processing, operational efficiencies and decision-making.

As Frontier, the worldâs first exascale supercomputer, was being assembled at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in 2021, understanding its performance on mixed-precision calculations remained a difficult prospect.

Carl Dukesâ career as an adept communicator got off to a slow start: He was about 5 years old when he spoke for the first time. âIâve been making up for lost time ever since,â joked Dukes, a technical professional at the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű.