Energy Dept. Offers Up to $3M in Funding to Spur Efficient Manufacturing
WASHINGTON – The US Department of Energy announced up to $3 million in funding to spur the use of US national laboratory supercomputing resources to strengthen domestic manufacturing.
Under DoE’s High-Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) solicitation, project teams will work with the labs to apply advanced modeling, simulation and data analysis to achieve energy, material, and cost savings in manufacturing.
“Bolstering domestic manufacturing and sustaining American leadership in advanced manufacturing is a top priority for the Trump administration,” said Alex Fitzsimmons, deputy assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency. “President Trump’s recent launch of the Covid-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium demonstrates the administration’s support for high-performance computing resources to advance the pace of scientific discovery, which will be critical to America’s economic recovery.”
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the managing entity of the HPC4EI initiative, is looking for industry partners to make advancements in the following topic areas: improvements in manufacturing processes that result in significant national energy savings; improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest; efficiency improvements in energy conversion and storage technologies.
The High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing program, one component of HPC4EI, offers a path for US manufacturing companies to broaden the use of advanced computing technology to increase the sector’s energy efficiency and material productivity. Eligibility for the program is limited to entities that manufacture products or operate systems in the US for commercial applications and organizations that support them.
Applicants to this solicitation are encouraged to partner with universities and non-profit organizations located within federally designated opportunity zones and/or historically black colleges and universities. Selected projects will be awarded up to $300,000 to support computing cycles and work performed by DOE national laboratories, universities, and non-profit partners.
All DOE national laboratories are eligible to participate. The industry partner must provide a participant contribution of at least 20% of the total project funding. The deadline for concept papers is June 9.
For more information, visit https://hpc4energyinnovation.llnl.gov/solicitation-spring.html.
