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- Five groundbreaking projects were named as finalists for the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize at the SC25 conference, each leveraging NVIDIA GPU-powered supercomputers for scientific discovery.
- The teams represent leading global institutions, including Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- The finalist projects cover frontier topics: ICON’s Earth system modeling at kilometer scale, ORBIT-2’s AI-driven weather and climate downscaling, QuaTrEx’s nanoscale transistor simulations, MFC’s accelerated spacecraft fluid dynamics, and a Tsunami Digital Twin enabling rapid warning systems.
- These research efforts utilize premier supercomputers—Alps, JUPITER, and Perlmutter—demonstrating breakthroughs such as a 10 billion-fold speedup for tsunami forecasting and significant gains in simulation accuracy and efficiency.
- This year’s advancements showcase the fusion of AI and exascale HPC, signaling a shift toward operational, GPU-accelerated tools for climate science, semiconductor development, and disaster preparedness within research and enterprise settings.
Impact
The dominance of NVIDIA-powered projects among 2025’s Gordon Bell finalists highlights the critical role of GPUs in advancing high-performance computing for vital scientific and engineering challenges. With applications ranging from real-time disaster warnings to rapid semiconductor innovation, these achievements emphasize a market shift toward GPU-driven solutions for cutting-edge simulation and data analysis. NVIDIA’s strategic position in HPC is further validated as institutions move away from traditional CPU architectures for their most demanding workloads.
