Gordon Bell Prize Finalists Push Open Science Boundaries With NVIDIA-Powered Supercomputers

5 finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize for excellent achievements in high-performance computing (HPC) are utilizing NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for his or her vital work in local weather modeling, supplies science, fluid simulation, geophysics and digital design.

Introduced at present at SC25, the finalists’ initiatives are driving AI and HPC for science utilizing physics simulation, high-precision math and different superior supercomputing methods, accelerating breakthroughs throughout climate forecasting, semiconductor design, area exploration and different fields. Their outcomes are open and accessible on ArXiv.

The supercomputers powering their work embrace:

• Alps — hosted on the Swiss Nationwide Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and powered by greater than 10,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips. 
• Perlmutter — hosted on the Nationwide Vitality Analysis Scientific Computing Middle (NERSC) and powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing.
• JUPITER — Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, hosted on the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and powered by the NVIDIA Grace Hopper platform and Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking.

“At CSCS, we don’t simply help open science — we speed up it,” mentioned Thomas Schulthess, director of CSCS. “The extraordinary breakthroughs by this 12 months’s 5 Gordon Bell finalists in local weather modeling, supplies science, fluid dynamics and digital twins stand as irrefutable proof: with out the Alps supercomputer, these scientific discoveries merely wouldn’t exist. Pushing computational boundaries turns daring targets into actuality, delivering scientific revolutions that can redefine our world.”

Be taught extra in regards to the 5 finalists’ initiatives under.

A novel configuration for the ICON Earth system mannequin — developed by researchers on the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, German Local weather Computing Centre (DKRZ), CSCS, JSC, ETH Zurich and NVIDIA — is poised to allow extra correct climate forecasts and a deeper understanding of how the planet works. 

By modeling all the Earth’s methods at kilometer-scale decision, ICON can seize the movement of vitality, water and carbon via the environment, oceans and land with distinctive element and unprecedented temporal compression — permitting about 146 days to be simulated each 24 hours — which permits extra environment friendly local weather simulations projecting as much as many years ahead.

“Integrating all important parts of the Earth system within the ICON mannequin at an unprecedented decision of 1 kilometer permits researchers to see full world Earth system data on native scales and study extra in regards to the implications of future warming for each folks and ecosystems,” mentioned Daniel Klocke, computational infrastructure and mannequin improvement group chief at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

Developed as a part of a collaboration between Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory, NVIDIA and others — and operating on the Alps supercomputer — ORBIT-2 is an AI basis mannequin for climate and local weather downscaling that demonstrates unparalleled scalability and precision.

Tapping into exascale computing and algorithmic innovation, ORBIT-2 overcomes challenges confronted by conventional local weather fashions with spatial hyper-resolution downscaling, a way that creates high-resolution knowledge from lower-resolution sources. This allows groups to seize and predict much more localized phenomena like city warmth islands, excessive precipitation occasions and refined shifts in monsoon patterns.

“NVIDIA’s superior supercomputing applied sciences enabled ORBIT-2 to realize distinctive scalability, reliability and affect on the intersection of AI and high-performance computing on NVIDIA platforms,” mentioned Prasanna Balaprakash, director of AI applications and part head for knowledge and AI methods at Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory.

A crew from ETH Zurich has superior nanoscale digital system modeling with QuaTrEx, a bundle of algorithms that may enhance the design of next-generation transistors.

Operating on the Alps supercomputer with NVIDIA GH200 Superchips, QuaTrEx can simulate gadgets with greater than 45,000 atoms with FP64 efficiency and excessive parallel-computing effectivity. This allows sooner, extra correct design of transistors, known as NREFTs, that will probably be essential for the semiconductor business.

“Entry to Alps was instrumental within the improvement of QuaTrEx,” mentioned Mathieu Luisier, full professor of computational nanoelectronics at ETH Zurich. “It allowed us to simulate gadgets that we couldn’t think about dealing with just some months in the past.”

Designing spacecrafts, particularly these with many small engines, requires detailed simulation, as engines packed intently collectively could cause their exhaust to work together and warmth up a rocket’s base. 

Operating on the Alps supercomputer, MFC, an open-source solver developed by the Georgia Institute of Know-how in collaboration with NVIDIA and others, permits fluid movement simulation 4x sooner and with over 5x larger vitality effectivity whereas sustaining the identical accuracy because the earlier world file. Primarily based on full-scale runs on Alps, MFC is predicted to run at 10x the size of the earlier world file on JUPITER. This paves the way in which for sooner, extra correct design of vital parts for area exploration.

“Our new data geometric regularization methodology, mixed with the NVIDIA GH200 Superchip’s unified digital reminiscence and mixed-precision capabilities, has drastically improved the effectivity of simulating advanced computational fluid flows, enabling us to simulate rocket engine plumes at unprecedented scales,” mentioned Spencer Bryngelson, assistant professor in computational science and engineering on the Georgia Institute of Know-how.

The College of Texas at Austin, Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Laboratory and the College of California San Diego have created the world’s first digital twin that may concern real-time probabilistic tsunami forecasts based mostly on a full-physics mannequin. 

Utilized to the Cascadia subduction zone within the Pacific Northwest, the digital twin completed advanced computations that may usually take 50 years on 512 GPUs in simply 0.2 seconds on the Alps and Perlmutter supercomputers, representing a ten billion-fold speedup.

“For the primary time, real-time sensor knowledge might be quickly mixed with full-physics modeling and uncertainty quantification to offer folks an opportunity to behave earlier than catastrophe strikes,” mentioned Omar Ghattas, professor of mechanical engineering at UT Austin. “This framework gives a foundation for predictive, physics-based emergency-response methods throughout numerous hazards.”

For the tsunami digital twin, ICON and MFC initiatives, NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries performed a key position in maximizing the efficiency and effectivity of the advanced simulations. ICON additionally faucets into NVIDIA CUDA Graphs, which permit work to be outlined as graphs reasonably than single operations.

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