The 21st Century is frequently referenced as the “Century of the City,” reflecting the unprecedented global migration into urban areas.

Intelligent devices enabled with HPC “at the edge” has the potential to optimize city energy generation and delivery, emergency response, and to allow urban infrastructures to adapt autonomously to events such as severe storms or traffic congestion.

This vignette features Charlie Catlett, Director, Urban Center for Computation & Data, Argonne National Laboratory and Pete Beckman, Co-Director, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory