{"id":225581,"date":"2025-11-21T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/to-meld-a-i-with-supercomputers-national-labs-are-picking-up-the-pace"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:05:18","slug":"to-meld-a-i-with-supercomputers-national-labs-are-picking-up-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/to-meld-a-i-with-supercomputers-national-labs-are-picking-up-the-pace","title":{"rendered":"To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-meld-a-i-with-supercomputers-national-labs-are-picking-up-the-pace.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, Rick Stevens, a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, pushed the notion of transforming scientific computing with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>But even as Mr. Stevens worked toward that goal, government labs like Argonne \u2014 created in 1946 and sponsored by the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/29\/technology\/energy-department-supercomputer-ai.html\" title=\"\">Department of Energy<\/a> \u2014 often took five years or more to develop powerful supercomputers that can be used for A.I. research. Mr. Stevens watched as companies like Amazon, Microsoft and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/31\/business\/energy-environment\/elon-musk-ai-memphis-pollution.html\" title=\"\">Elon Musk\u2019s xAI<\/a> made faster gains by installing large A.I. systems in a matter of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Rick Stevens, a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, pushed the notion of transforming scientific computing with artificial intelligence. But even as Mr. Stevens worked toward that goal, government labs like Argonne \u2014 created in 1946 and sponsored by the Department of Energy \u2014 often took five years or more to develop powerful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}