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Supercharging battery research at Argonne with Aurora and the Advanced Photon Source

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By combining world-class capabilities in materials imaging at APS with powerful simulation, AI, and data analysis resources at ALCF, Argonne’s cutting-edge user facilities are helping to usher in a new era of battery innovation.

Aurora supercomputer

Turning materials data into AI-powered lab assistants

News science

University of Cambridge researchers are using ALCF supercomputers to develop domain-specific AI tools that aim to speed up materials discovery.

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Source BigDATAwire
Published 08/04/2025

TPC25 Provides Glimpse at Future of AI-Powered Science

TPC 25

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Source HPCwire
Published 07/30/2025

TPC25 Session Overview – Transforming Science: Frontier Models, Hybrid Systems and Agentic Systems

TPC 25

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Source Scientific Computing World
Published 07/30/2025

Aurora accelerates aerospace design

Simulation showing airflow patterns around an airplane’s vertical tail.

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Source Military Aerospace Electronics
Published 07/29/2025

DOE’s Aurora supercomputer enables next-gen airflow simulations for aircraft efficiency

Simulation showing airflow patterns around an airplane’s vertical tail.

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Source HPCwire
Published 07/29/2025

Argonne-Led Researchers Zero in on a New Material for Quantum Information Storage

Magnesium atoms (orange) and oxygen atoms (red) surround the nitrogen-vacancy center in magnesium oxide, shown by a transparent representation of a nitrogen atom under the missing magnesium atom. The yellow and blue spots show how electrons localize around the vacancy.

Type science
Published 07/28/2025

Researchers zero in on a new material for quantum information storage

Magnesium atoms (orange) and oxygen atoms (red) surround the nitrogen-vacancy center in magnesium oxide, shown by a transparent representation of a nitrogen atom under the missing magnesium atom. The yellow and blue spots show how electrons localize around the vacancy.

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Source HPCwire
Published 07/28/2025

Agentic AI Sets the Tone at TPC25’s Hackathon and Tutorial Plenary Session

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Published 07/28/2025

Improving Next-Generation Aircraft With Argonne’s Aurora Supercomputer and AI

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Source Aerospace Global News
Published 07/26/2025

Tackling turbulence: How AI and a supercomputer could help us design more efficient aircraft

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Published 07/26/2025

US supercomputer simulates 1 quintillion calculations to design better airplanes

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