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Frontier search for lightweight, flexible alloys wins Gordon Bell Prize

A Univ. of Michigan-led team used Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer, to simulate a system of nearly 75,000 magnesium atoms at near-quantum accuracy. Credit: SC23
A Univ. of Michigan-led team used Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer, to simulate a system of nearly 75,000 magnesium atoms at near-quantum accuracy. Credit: SC23

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

The ACM Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The team received their prize at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, or SC23, in Denver.

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Read the original science feature here: Big flex for big science – Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (ornl.gov)