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NVIDIA has achieved significant milestones in the fields of supercomputing and scientific research, driving breakthroughs in climate modeling, materials science, fluid simulation, geophysics, and electronic design. Recent achievements include the development of a digital twin for tsunami early warning systems, advanced nanoscale electronic device modeling with QuaTrEx, and simulating spacecraft at record-breaking scales With the MFC Flow Solver. These innovative projects demonstrate NVIDIA's role in advancing high-performance computing technologies that accelerate scientific discoveries.
NVIDIA has achieved significant milestones in supercomputing and scientific research, advancing high-performance computing (HPC) technologies. The company has developed a digital twin for tsunami early warning systems, which can issue real-time probabilistic forecasts. NVIDIA's HPC capabilities have enabled scientists to analyze vast amounts of data in real-time, with a 10 billion-fold speedup on certain supercomputers. The company has supported projects such as ORBIT-2, which demonstrates unparalleled scalability and precision in weather and climate downscaling. NVIDIA has also advanced nanoscale electronic device modeling with QuaTrEx, enabling faster and more accurate design of transistors. The company's HPC platforms have played a crucial role in pushing open science boundaries, including projects on fluid simulation, geophysics, and electronic design.
NVIDIA, a leader in accelerating computing solutions, has achieved significant milestones in the fields of supercomputing and scientific research. Recent breakthroughs have demonstrated the company's commitment to advancing high-performance computing (HPC) technologies, with applications that span various disciplines such as climate modeling, materials science, fluid simulation, geophysics, and electronic design.
One of the most notable achievements is the development of a digital twin for tsunami early warning systems. In collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the University of California San Diego, NVIDIA has created a world-first digital twin that can issue real-time probabilistic tsunami forecasts based on a full-physics model. This innovative approach leverages advanced supercomputing capabilities to provide people with a chance to act before disaster strikes.
The digital twin accomplished complex computations that would normally take 50 years on 512 GPUs in just 0.2 seconds on the Alps and Perlmutter supercomputers, representing a 10 billion-fold speedup. This achievement highlights NVIDIA's role in driving breakthroughs in HPC, enabling scientists to analyze vast amounts of data in real-time.
"For the first time, real-time sensor data can be rapidly combined with full-physics modeling and uncertainty quantification to give people a chance to act before disaster strikes," said Omar Ghattas, professor of mechanical engineering at UT Austin. "This framework provides a basis for predictive, physics-based emergency-response systems across various hazards."
In addition to this groundbreaking achievement, NVIDIA has also supported several other high-profile projects. One notable example is the ORBIT-2 project, which was developed as part of a collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NVIDIA. This AI foundation model for weather and climate downscaling demonstrates unparalleled scalability and precision.
Tapping into exascale computing and algorithmic innovation, ORBIT-2 overcomes challenges faced by traditional climate models with spatial hyper-resolution downscaling, a technique that creates high-resolution data from lower-resolution sources. This enables teams to capture and predict far more localized phenomena like urban heat islands, extreme precipitation events, and subtle shifts in monsoon patterns.
"Our research is supported by NVIDIA's advanced supercomputing technologies," said Prasanna Balaprakash, director of AI programs and section head for data and AI systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "NVIDIA’s platforms enable us to achieve exceptional scalability, reliability, and impact at the intersection of AI and high-performance computing."
Furthermore, NVIDIA has also been instrumental in advancing nanoscale electronic device modeling with QuaTrEx, a package of algorithms that can boost the design of next-generation transistors. Running on the Alps supercomputer with NVIDIA GH200 Superchips, QuaTrEx can simulate devices with more than 45,000 atoms with FP64 performance and extreme parallel-computing efficiency.
This enables faster, more accurate design of transistors, called NREFTs, that will be crucial for the semiconductor industry. "Access to Alps was instrumental in the development of QuaTrEx," said Mathieu Luisier, full professor of computational nanoelectronics at ETH Zurich. "It allowed us to simulate devices that we could not imagine handling just a few months ago."
Another significant achievement is Simulating Spacecraft at Record-Breaking Scales With the MFC Flow Solver. This project, developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with NVIDIA and others, enables fluid flow simulation 4x faster and with over 5x greater energy efficiency while maintaining the same accuracy as the previous world record.
Based on full-scale runs on Alps, MFC is expected to run at 10x the scale of the previous world record on JUPITER. This paves the way for faster, more accurate design of critical components for space exploration. "Our new information geometric regularization method, combined with the NVIDIA GH200 Superchip’s unified virtual memory and mixed-precision capabilities, has drastically improved the efficiency of simulating complex computational fluid flows," said Spencer Bryngelson, assistant professor in computational science and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Finally, NVIDIA-powered supercomputers have also played a crucial role in pushing open science boundaries. Five finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievements in high-performance computing are using these platforms to drive AI and HPC for science. Their results are open and accessible on ArXiv.
The five finalists' projects include climate modeling, materials science, fluid simulation, geophysics, and electronic design. These projects demonstrate NVIDIA's commitment to advancing HPC technologies that accelerate breakthroughs across various fields.
"Innovations like these are what make the difference between ordinary computing systems and supercomputers," said Thomas Schulthess, director of CSCS. "At CSCS, we don’t just support open science — we accelerate it. The extraordinary breakthroughs by this year’s five Gordon Bell finalists stand as irrefutable proof: without the Alps supercomputer, these scientific discoveries simply would not exist."
Related Information:
https://www.digitaleventhorizon.com/articles/NVIDIAs-Supercomputing-Breakthroughs-Revolutionizing-Earth-System-Modeling-and-Space-Exploration-deh.shtml
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gordon-bell-finalists-2025/
Published: Tue Nov 18 17:03:18 2025 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
