🌟 GLVis 4.5 released with many new features: ✓ complex data visualization ✓ color palettes enhancements ✓ visualization of finite element DOF locations ✓ new headless mode based on EGL/CGL ✓ code refactoring and glvis-js improvements Learn more at glvis.org Try the web version glvis.org/live

📅 The 50th (!) 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Tuesday, Feb 10, 9-10:30am PDT 🌟 David Moxey and Edward Erasmie-Jones from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will present: "NektarIR: A Domain-Specific Compiler for High-Order Finite Element Operations on Heterogeneous Hardware" 👉 See mfem.org/seminar

📅 The next 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Monday, Feb 2, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Andrea Beck from @unistuttgart.bsky.social will present: "Efficient solution strategies for multiscale flow problems: combining adaptive high order discretizations, models and data". 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/seminar.

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday (Jan 20), 9:30-11:00am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Jay Gopalakrishnan from @Portland_State will present: "Matrix-valued finite elements". 👉 Sign up + Learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

Some stats for last week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟵 release: ‣ months in development = 8 ‣ number of contributors = 38 ‣ new lines of code = 55,423 ‣ PRs merged = 247 ‣ number of commits = 2456 ‣ issues closed = 131 ‣ 100% @opensource 🌟 Star + Download: github.com/mfem/mfem

🌟 MFEM 4.9 released with many new features: ✓ ∂FEM interface for differentiable simulations ✓ initial support for particle methods ✓ AMGF solver + miniapp for contact problems ✓ improved GPU kernels, TMOP, NURBS, AMR ✓ 10 new examples and miniapps ✓ switch to C++17 ✓ and much more! Visit mfem.org

Congratulations to Team Cascadia (featuring CRESCENT-affiliated Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel) who've been awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in high-performance computing for their billion-parameter Cascadia Subduction Zone tsunami model using the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan!

Scripps researcher wins Gordon Bell Prize for real-time tsunami forecasting Alice Gabriel from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography won the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for her team's real-time tsunami forecasting system. Using advanced algorith…

It was an unbelievable honor to win the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize with #TeamCascadia last week! 🏆 This is the culmination of many years of work by the #MFEM team and just one example of the power that GPU-accelerated high-order finite elements can bring to #HPC applications 🙌

🏅This Scripps Oceanography seismologist & a team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social & the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just won the Nobel Prize of supercomputing! 💻⚡ Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️

Reader’s Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences - Thank you! And a huge thank you to the interdisciplinary team making all of this possible: Stefan Henneking, Sreeram Venkat, Veselin Dobrev, John Camier, Tzanio Kolev, Milinda Fernando, and Omar Ghattas. @scrippsocean.bsky.social

It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

🚨 An eight-member U.S. team has won the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” Congrats to all the innovators pushing HPC forward! buff.ly/YBRsfnY

ACM Gordon Bell Prize Honors Breakthrough in Real-Time Tsunami Modeling #SC25 #HPCwire Link: ow.ly/AwEy50XuX0P

Congratulations to the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize winners for their research on a digital twin for real-time tsunami early warning! The work used supercomputing resources including El Capitan at LLNL and Frontera at TACC. The prize was awarded at #SC25 in St. Louis. Learn more: bit.ly/3Kd7gsw

Thank you to the HPCwire readers for the “Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences” award!

A great start to #SC25, our team received the 2025 Hyperion Research #HPC Innovation Excellence Award for advancing real-time tsunami early warning on the world’s fastest supercomputers.

Heading to #SC25 where our “Team Cascadia” presents the digital-twin #HPC framework integrating Bayesian inference at extreme scale towards real-time, physics-based tsunami early warning that earned us a place among this year’s ACM Gordon Bell Prize finalists. All presentations:

Join #TeamCascadia at #SC25 to learn more about the collaboration between @utaustin.bsky.social, @ucsandiego.bsky.social and the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 team at LLNL on tsunami modeling 🌊 on the world's largest HPC supercomputers.

Make time at #SC25 to visit the #ArtOfHPC exhibition - beauty and science all in one place - well worth a few minutes of your time #HPC #Supercomputing #HPCignites All these and much more …

All slides and video recordings from the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop are now available at: 👉 mfem.org/workshop You can rewatch the full workshop at this playlist: 📺 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... For more MFEM-related videos, see: 🌟 mfem.org/videos/ #MFEM25 #FEM #HPC #OpenSource

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Nov 18th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Robert Falgout from @Livermore_Lab will present: "New advances in hypre 3.0 for mixed precision and semi-structured problems". 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Nov 4th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Bill Henshaw @rpi will present: "An O(N) Helmholtz Solver by time-filtering the Wave Equation". 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

📆 Join us at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 in the minisymposium on "Open-Source Software in Mechanics". wccm-eccomas2026.org/event/area/7... 🌟 We welcome contributions from any #OpenSource project in the area of computational mechanics. Hope to see you in Munich!

🌟 We have a new post-doc opening on the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 team at @Livermore_Lab. 🚀 Join us to work on 💠 differentiable finite element simulations 💠 for challenging multiphysics applications 💠 targeting the world's largest HPC GPU systems Apply at: us.smrtr.io/4bmzz

🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 Visualization Contest! 📺 Best simulation video: 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮 for "Real-time digital twin for tsunami early warning applied to the Cascadia subduction zone." 👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery

🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 Visualization Contest! 🖼️ Best simulation image: 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶 for "Electric field during RF ablation procedure on idealized intracardiac geometry." 👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery

📅 We are resuming our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series with a talk on Tuesday, Sep 30, 9:00-10:30am PDT 🌟 Dr. Florian Schäfer from @nyucourant.bsky.social will present: "Toward Information Geometric Mechanics" 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar

Thank you to all participants for the fun and inspiring 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 workshop this week! 🙏 It was really exciting to see all the amazing things that the community is building 🚀 Congrats 🎉 to the visualization contest winners! MFEM is awesome because of you 🔥

⏳The 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop registration closes this week! We welcome presentations 🧑‍🏫, demos🔮 and visualization contest 🖼 entries from the community. Student travel support 🧑‍🎓 is still available! Please register/apply by Wednesday, August 27th at: 👉 mfem.org/workshop

LLNL Scientists Use El Capitan to Explore Real-Time Tsunami Warning System ow.ly/6Bpl50WFr5z #LLNL #HPC #HPCwire

Scientists at LLNL have developed a real-time tsunami forecasting system powered by the El Capitan supercomputer, capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second. #Tsunami #AI #Supercomputer #ElCapitan #DisasterPreparedness #EarlyWarning #Earthquake

📆 Registration deadline for the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop is less than a month away! 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/workshop 🧑‍🏫 We welcome presentations + demos from the community 🖼 Winners of the visualization contest get an MFEM t-shirt 🧑‍🎓 Student support is available #MFEM25 #HPC #FEM #OpenSource

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Thursday, June 12th, 9:00-10:30am PDT 🌟 Dr. John Evans from @colorado.edu will present: "Interpolation-Based Immersed Finite Element and Isogeometric Analysis" 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar

🎉 The 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community is gathering for its 2025 workshop on September 10-11! 👉 Join us in Portland (or virtually) if you are interested in #HPC finite elements ✓ Sign up at mfem.org/workshop ✓ Submit research/student talks ✓ Join the visualization contest #MFEM25

🌟 GLVis 4.4 released with many new features: ✓ support for external color palettes ✓ new (optional) palette sets ✓ loading of MFEM data collections ✓ up to 3D vector fields in 1D/2D ✓ bugfixes and refactoring Learn more at glvis.org Try the web version glvis.org/live

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, May 6th, 9:00-10:30am PDT 🌟 Dr. David Williams from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social will present: "Finite element exterior calculus in four-dimensional space" 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday, April 22nd, 10:00-11:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Freddie Witherden from @tamu.bsky.social will present: "High Performance Asynchronous I/O for Exascale Spectral Element Methods" 👉 Sign up and learn more at mfem.org/seminar.

My talk at mfem.org/seminar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) on the Mixed Finite Element formulation and MoFEM. Thanks to @tzanio.bsky.social for the invitation. It was a great pleasure.

Just published in JOSS: 'MFEM/MGIS, a HPC mini-application targeting nonlinear thermo-mechanical simulations of nuclear fuels at mesoscale' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07719

Some stats for this week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟴 release: ‣ months in development = 11 ‣ number of contributors = 36 ‣ new lines of code = 53,481 ‣ PRs merged = 212 ‣ number of commits = 2922 ‣ issues closed = 284 ‣ 100% @opensource 🌟 Star and Download at: github.com/mfem/mfem

🌟 MFEM 4.8 released with many new features: ✓ high-order pyramids ✓ parallel p- and hp-refinement ✓ nonuniform anisotropic AMR ✓ field interpolation on GPUs ✓ SubMesh extraction with AMR ✓ improved hyperbolic problems ✓ optimization of periodic meshes ✓ and much more! Visit mfem.org

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, April 8th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Łukasz Kaczmarczyk (@likask.bsky.social) from University of Glasgow will present: "Mixed finite element formulation for solid mechanics problems". 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

📅 Next 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on March 11th at 9:00am PDT, see mfem.org/seminar. 🌟 Dr. Stefan Turek (TU_Dortmund) will present: "Hardware-oriented Numerics for Massively Parallel & Low Precision Accelerator Hardware and Application to large scale CFD Problems" 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/seminar

Excellent talk by Omar Ghattas at #SIAMCSE25 with lots of pictures and credit to @inseismoland.bsky.social

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Feb 18th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Patrick Zulian from USI Università della Svizzera italiana will present: "Immersed Domain Approach for Fluid-Structure-Contact Interaction Problems". 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/seminar.

All slides and video recordings from the 2024 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop are now available at: 👉 mfem.org/workshop You can rewatch the full workshop at this playlist: 📺 www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy9rIbGDXrG0yTf7zZZ0o0_VAOG2Z4rSj For more MFEM-related videos, see: 🌟 mfem.org/videos

Did you know? 21 @berkeleylab.lbl.gov staff won the DOE Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for their work on the Exascale Computing Project, a $1.8B, 7-year effort that created the world’s first sustainable exascale computing ecosystem bit.ly/ECPsa @lbnlbiosci.bsky.social @nersc.bsky.social #HPC

#ElCapitan dedication ceremony at LLNL today "At 1.742 exaFLOPs, #ElCapitan is the fastest computing system ever benchmarked" I like the careful wording, as they realize that the fastest #supercomputer in the world might not be on the #Top500 #HPC #AI via LLNL

HPE and AMD CEOs attended the #ElCapitan dedication at #LLNL