StarForward | “Forward” Projects Boost U.S. Leadership in Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence

The Fast-, Design-, and PathForward programs accelerated the development of critical technologies needed to deliver exascale computing capability to the nation. The Frontier exascale system (top) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory came online in 2022. The Aurora exascale system (middle) at Argonne National Laboratory has been deployed and is available to early science users; and later this year, El Capitan (bottom)—NNSA’s first exascale system—sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—will come online to strengthen national security research.