Preparing the PETSc/TAO Software Suite to Support Exascale Scientific Applications
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 93: Preparing the PETSc/TAO Software Suite to Support Exascale Scientific Applications By Scott Gibson Hello, and welcome. This is where we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. In […]
Hyperion Research Announces March 2022 HPC User Forum
Hyperion Research, the leading industry analyst and market intelligence firm for high performance computing (HPC), AI, cloud, quantum, and associated emerging markets, today announced that registration is open for the HPC User Forum’s March 2022 virtual meeting. The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 as a forum to enable fact-driven discussions of the global […]
Report: Non-Proprietary Companion to the Q1 CY2021 PathForward Final Assessment
The PathForward element of Exascale Computing Project was established to prepare the US industry for exascale system procurements and generally improve US competitiveness in the worldwide computing market. A competitive PathForward RFP (Request for Proposals) was released in 2016, seeking responses to improve application performance and developer productivity while maximizing the energy efficiency and reliability […]
The Flux Supercomputing Workload Manager: Improving on Innovation and Planning for the Future
By Scott Gibson High-performance computing, or supercomputing, combined with new data-science approaches such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) give scientists the ability to explore phenomena at levels of detail that would otherwise be impossible or impractical. This ranges from solving the most difficult physics calculations, to designing better drugs for cancer and COVID-19, […]
2021 Application Development Milestone Report
This Exascale Computing Project (ECP) milestone report summarizes the status of all 30 ECP Application Development (AD) subprojects at the end of FY20. In October and November of 2020, a comprehensive assessment of AD projects was conducted by the ECP leadership. Reviews occurred virtually between October 27, 2020 and November 12, 2020. The review committee […]
Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 65: Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing By Scott Gibson As the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has evolved since its inception in 2016, what’s known as containers technology and how it fits into the wider scheme of exascale computing and high-performance computing […]
Helping Users Deploy High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries in a Consistent Interoperable Software Stack
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 92: Helping Users Deploy High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries By Scott Gibson Hi and welcome. This is where we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. In this episode, […]
Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE)
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 91: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) By Scott Gibson Hi and welcome to episode 91 of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast. This is where we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected […]
Frontier: Designing the Electrical Infrastructure for a Supercomputer with Unprecedented Power Demands
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 90: Frontier: Designing the Electrical Infrastructure for Unprecedented Power Demands By Scott Gibson Hi. In this podcast we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. This is the third […]
Helping Large-Scale Multiphysics Engineering and Scientific Applications Achieve Their Goals
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 89: Helping Large-Scale Multiphysics Engineering and Scientific Applications Hi. This is where we explore the efforts of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. In this episode, we take a look at […]
Frontier: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 88: Frontier: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems By Scott Gibson Hi. In this podcast we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. This is episode […]
Frontier: ORNL’s Justin Whitt on Deploying the Nation’s First Exascale Supercomputer
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 87: Frontier: ORNL’s Justin Whitt on Deploying the Nation’s First Exascale Supercomputer By Scott Gibson Hi. In this podcast we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. This is […]
An Exascale Day Interview with ORNL’s Doug Kothe, Director of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 86: An Interview with Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe As the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) rolls into its sixth year, ECP Director Doug Kothe continues to propel the effort, drawing on the deep well of experience he has filled during three and a half […]
Exascale Day Article: Early access systems at LLNL mark progress toward El Capitan
Though the arrival of the exascale supercomputer El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is still almost two years away, teams of code developers are busy working on predecessor systems to ensure critical applications are ready for Day One. Delivered in February, the “RZNevada” early access system is providing experts at the National Nuclear Security […]
Exascale Day Article: Contributing capabilities to E3SM-MMF
A subproject within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), the Energy Exascale Earth Systems Modeling-Multiscale Modeling Framework (E3SM-MMF) has sought to improve simulation capabilities around the water cycle and precipitation. The project’s aim is to use the additional exascale computing power not only to accelerate the global E3SM model, but to add […]
Exascale Day Audio: Walter Hannah
Impact Area: Climate Modeling Transcript My name is Walter Hannah and I’m a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. My research generally focuses on clouds in the atmosphere and developing climate models. Modeling the earth’s climate is a big task that requires representing a huge range of scales, and the scale of individual clouds is […]
Exascale Day Audio: Salman Habib
Impact Area: Cosmological Science Transcript I’m Salman Habib, physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, where I am director of the Computational Science Division and am also a member of the High Energy Physics Division. Within the Exascale Computing Project, I lead the ExaSky Applications Development effort. The aim of the ExaSky project is to develop […]
Exascale Day Audio: Ariana Peck
Impact Area: Free Electron Laser Research Transcript Hi. I’m Ariana Peck from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and a researcher contributing to the Exascale Computing Project. Exascale computing serves as a powerful lens that allows us to investigate structure and dynamics at a molecular scale from diffraction images collected at the SLAC Linac Coherent Light […]
Exascale Day Audio: Sherry Li
Impact Area: Mathematical Libraries/Algorithm Improvement Transcript Hi. I’m Sherry Li. I am a senior scientist in the Applied Math and Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In ECP, I lead the mathematical libraries area in Software Technology. I am also principal investigator of an ECP project, delivering SuperLU and STRUMPACK sparse direct […]
Exascale Day Audio: Brandon Draeger
Impact Area: Discovery and Insights in Research Transcript Hi. I’m Brandon Draeger. I was formerly at Cray and now at HPE, where I have led product marketing for our specialty High Performance Compute and AI businesses for the last several years. In these roles, I have had the privilege of helping tell the story […]
