Note: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Salman Habib, and Katrin Heitmann are SkAI Senior Personnel and Core members
Original URL: https://ciera.northwestern.edu/2025/12/01/northwestern-argonne-collaboration-named-finalist-for-prestigious-gordon-bell-prize/
By Lisa La Vallee (Northwestern University Center for Intersidciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, December 1, 2025)
A groundbreaking large-scale simulation of the universe, created through a collaboration between Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Argonne National Laboratory, was named a finalist for the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize, the highest honor in high-performance computing. It was one of only six finalists selected globally from hundreds of submissions across all fields of science and engineering. The award, administered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizes “outstanding achievement in high-performance computing,” and is considered the top prize in the field.
Interpreting the Universe
The project, involving CIERA and NSF-Simons AI Institute for the SkAI (SkAI) faculty member Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, led led to the development of The Frontier Exascale (Frontier-E), the largest hydrodynamic model of the universe ever achieved. To read more, see https://ciera.northwestern.edu/2025/12/01/northwestern-argonne-collaboration-named-finalist-for-prestigious-gordon-bell-prize/
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