As the country accelerates its shift toward energy dominance, the demand for innovative battery technologies has never been greater.
“Whether it’s transportation on land, in the sky or on water, or it’s the electric grid, portable electronics and other devices, batteries will be a key technology for powering the modern world,” said Venkat Srinivasan, director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
Central to Argonne’s efforts in this area are two powerful research tools — the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the Aurora exascale supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The APS and ALCF are DOE Office of Science user facilities located at Argonne.
“This one-two punch should be game changing for the future of battery research at Argonne and elsewhere,” Srinivasan said.
“Aurora has more than 60,000 GPUs,” said Argonne computational scientist Chris Knight, referring to graphical processing units, a type of computer processor. “It opens a realm of possibilities where researchers can now write code that has more of the physics they need and still obtain insightful results in a timely manner. This way, they can really start to answer some of the profound questions that battery researchers in both academic and industry groups are trying to tackle.”
Aurora is an extremely powerful state-of-the-art machine.
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