With its world-class high performance computing capabilities, Sandia continues to develop solutions to some of the most sweeping and complicated national challenges. For example, Sandia’s HPC community stepped up when COVID-19 hit, running medical resource modeling simulations and more.
Each year, Sandia releases the transformative HPC Report that delves into cutting-edge advancements in how our scientists, engineers and researchers use supercomputers to address some of these challenges. Explore the recently released 2023 report to discover the breakthroughs and impact of HPC on various sectors.
This report offers insights and an enhanced understanding of exceedingly complex systems, from modeling arctic permafrost degradation and coastal erosion to the design of strong and flexible interlocking metasurfaces to forecasting explosive behavior for confidence. Read how Sandia’s researchers are leveraging machine learning models to complement classic scientific computing models. This emergent modeling paradigm is known as scientific machine learning, or SciML, and has the potential to revolutionize computational modeling.
In addition, tying back to the Labs’ most important mission, HPC continues to be instrumental in nuclear deterrence work. A team of researchers have built HPC models that can predict how much wear nuclear weapon components will experience over time in a specified environment. This work would not be possible without HPC, due to the size and complexity of the models.
Take a moment to dive into this innovative report and download the SNLSimMagic app, an augmented reality iOS application developed at Sandia, to watch the pages come to life. SNLSimMagic offers an interactive experience where you can watch real-time simulations that help our researchers advance in this rapidly evolving field.
If you would like to request a copy of this report or be added to the HPC distribution list, email hpcreport@sandia.gov. If you are an HPC researcher at Sandia and would like to submit an article proposal for the 2024 report, email the HPC Report team at the same email address.