Argonne scientists are finalists for several prestigious Gordon Bell Prizes, which celebrate major achievements in HPC.   

• One project explores cosmological hydrodynamics at exascale. The researchers achieve a trillion-particle leap in capabilities, marks a significant advance in predictive modeling for next-generation cosmological science.  
  
• Another project focuses on how light and matter interact in quantum materials. Their approach shows record times in communication, enabling the first study of light-induced switching of topological superlattices.  
  
• Argonne’s AERIS, an Earth systems model for reliable weather forecasting, is a finalist for the Gordon Bell Climate Modeling Award. By exploiting an optimized hybrid parallelism strategy, AERIS can carry out billion-parameter diffusion problems for weather and climate prediction.  

In addition, the Aurora supercomputer was used in another finalist project led by University of Southern California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that achieved a new level of accuracy in simulating the behavior of quantum materials.