The funding, which is the third in the series, has been announced under the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program.
The program is designed to boost the use of national lab supercomputing resources and expertise to advance innovation in energy efficient manufacturing.
Currently, it supports 29 projects partnering manufacturing industry members with DOE national labs to use laboratory HPC systems and expertise to improve their manufacturing processes.
Under the program, the partnering members will be allowed to use world-class supercomputers and the science and technology expertise resident at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and partner laboratories Lawrence Berkeley (LBNL) and Oak Ridge (ORNL) national laboratories.
US manufacturers will be supported by an HPC expert in finding solutions for challenges that could result in advancing clean energy technology.
HPC4Mfg program director and LLNL mathematician Peg Folta said: “The response from US manufacturers indicates growing recognition that high performance computing can provide a competitive edge.
"Companies we're working with are finding value in both the access to supercomputing resources and the expertise to apply them to manufacturing challenges."
For the first time, the program is also poised to get additional computing resources from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
The Department said that by using HPC in the design of products and industrial processes, manufacturers can avail benefits such as accelerating innovation, lowering energy costs, shortening testing cycles, reducing waste and rejected parts and cutting the time to market.
In the latest round, the program expects to fund another eight to 10 projects. It currently supports $11.4m for 29 projects with 23 companies and three national labs.
