On Nov. 18, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million to connect industry partners with the U.S. National Laboratory high-performance computing resources that will accelerate the development of breakthrough manufacturing and clean energy technologies, according to a press release.
Selected teams will apply the expanded computer process resources to projects designed to improve manufacturing efficiency and research new materials for clean energy applications as part of DOE latest High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) solicitation.
"Capable of making one quintillion calculations per second, these supercomputers will arm us with the information we need to reduce carbon emissions across U.S. industries and fight the climate crisis right here at home," Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Kelly Speakes-Backman said, according to the press release.
The HPC4EI solicitation will fund the DOE’s HPC for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program which seeks reductions in CO2 or CO2-equivalent emissions through electrification, improved carbon-capturing processes, and the integration of low-to-zero carbon fuels; improvements in manufacturing processes that result in significant national energy savings and carbon emissions; improvements in the life cycle energy consumption and carbon emissions reduction of products of interest; and efficiency improvements and carbon emissions reduction in energy conversion and storage technologies.
The solicitation will also fund the HPC for Materials in Applied Energy Technologies (HPC4Mtls) program, which will focus on Advanced Structural Materials for Hydrogen Applications, Advanced Structural Materials for Fossil Energy Applications and Advanced Functional Materials for Hydrogen Applications.
