Exascale Day Audio: John Turner
Impact Area: Additive Manufacturing Transcript We’ve heard over the years about the loss of manufacturing capability in the US and especially today we hear a lot about supply chain issues. And there’s a set of technologies that are really revolutionizing manufacturing, and one of those is additive manufacturing, often referred to as just AM. […]
Exascale Day Audio: Marianne Francois
Impact Area: National Security Transcript I am Marianne Francois from Los Alamos National Laboratory. My background is in computational physics. I lead the National Security Applications within the Exascale Computing Project. There are four projects within the portfolio. Each project addresses unique and complex multiphysics applications for the US Nuclear Security Enterprise. For the […]
Exascale Day Audio: Rick Stevens
Impact Area: Science and Engineering Applications Transcript This is not a destination as much as it’s a journey, and exascale is the next way on this journey towards ever increasingly more powerful computers. [What can exascale computing do?] It’s about a thousand times faster than the machines we had 10 years ago. With […]
Exascale Day Article: Powering up: LLNL prepares for exascale with massive energy & water upgrade
A supercomputer doesn’t just magically appear, especially one as large and as fast as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s upcoming exascale-class behemoth El Capitan. At peak usage, El Capitan — projected to be the world’s most powerful computer by 2023 — will require about as much energy as a small city, so it takes years of […]
Sunita Chandrasekaran Reflects on Teaching Supercomputing and Leading the ECP SOLLVE Project
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 85: Sunita Chandrasekaran on Teaching Supercomputing and Leading the ECP SOLLVE Project Hi. In this podcast we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. For this episode, which is number […]
The Flux Software Framework Manages and Schedules Modern Supercomputing Workflows
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 84: The Flux Software Framework Manages and Schedules Modern Supercomputing Workflows By Scott Gibson Hi, in this podcast 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. This time […]
The Exascale Computing Project Selects Sunita Chandrasekaran as Principal Investigator of the SOLLVE Project
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Sunita Chandrasekaran of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as principal investigator of the SOLLVE project. SOLLVE is advancing the OpenMP specification and its implementations to address exascale application challenges, including programmability gaps for core technologies, such as accelerator support, interoperability with message passing interface […]
ECP has Established the Leadership Scientific Software (LSSw) Portal to Engage with the Broader Technical Community
LSSw town hall (Zoom) meetings are open to all, starting September 16. A crucial objective of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) during its final years is to transition the project’s efforts to a sustainable organization and model for continued development and delivery of future capabilities. The initiative encompasses the incorporation of […]
Optimizing the North American Power Grid to Improve Reliability and Support Grid Decarbonization
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 83: Optimizing North American Power Grid to Improve Reliability and Grid Decarbonization Hello, this is where we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. ECP has an Application Development […]
ECP Selects DOD’s Frances (Fran) Hill as Co-Chair of Its Industry and Agency Council
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the selection of Dr. Frances (Fran) Hill as co-chair of the ECP Industry and Agency Council (IAC). Hill currently serves as chief scientist for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) with the US Department of Defense (DOD). She will assume the role of ECP-IAC co-chair alongside Dave […]
Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: WDMapp—XGC, GENE, GEM
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 82: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: WDMapp—XGC, GENE, GEM Welcome to episode 82 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 impact of exascale computing on society. And […]
Applying Graph Algorithms to Solve Key Science Problems of Importance to the Nation
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 81: Applying Graph Algorithms of Key Importance to the Nation By Scott Gibson In this podcast, we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. The ExaGraph project is what’s known […]
ECP and ALCF to Host Twitter Chat June 21
Live Chat to Engage with the Broad High-Performance Computing Community, Public On June 21 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject) that will address several questions concerning the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) that ECP is developing for the nation’s forthcoming […]
Update with Doug Kothe: Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights, and More
Video Exascale Computing Project · Episode 80: Update with Doug Kothe: Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights, and More In this May 2021 interview with Mike Bernhardt, communications manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), ECP Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable and sustainable exascale […]
Exascale Computing Project Portfolio Presentation Videos
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) recently held its 2021 Virtual Online Annual Meeting. The meeting is foundational to the success of the project. It provides a unique career opportunity for networking, collaboration, education, and training. Today, the ECP research community is composed of more than 1,000 people: researchers, domain scientists, US […]
The DOE Exascale Computing Project Expands the Project’s External Industry Council to Include Federal Agencies
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has expanded the membership of the ECP’s external Industry Council to include the participation of key federal agencies. The renamed ECP Industry and Agency Council (ECP-IAC) will now include members from DoD HPCMP, NASA, NIH, NOAA, and NSF. This group of senior level industry, government and technical […]
Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: HACC
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 79: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: HACC By Scott Gibson This is episode 79 of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, where we explore the efforts of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)—from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. […]
Ensuring the Exascale Ecosystem Lands Successfully at Energy Department Facilities
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 78: Ensuring the Exascale Ecosystem Lands Successfully at Energy Department Facilities. By Scott Gibson The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has a Software Deployment team that deploys and integrates and exascale software stack and implements a software integration and testing capability at DOE high-performance computing (HPC) […]
Continuous Integration: The Path to the Future for HPC
By Rob Farber, contributing writer The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is investing heavily in software for the forthcoming exascale systems as can be seen in the many tools, libraries and software components that are already freely available for download via the Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). In order for these software investments to achieve their […]
The ECP 2021 Community Birds-of-a-Feather Days
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced The ECP 2021 Community BOF Days, an impressive list of Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions for the broad high-performance computing (HPC) community. BOFs have a rich history throughout the HPC community as highly regarded sessions of various formats (e.g., panels, presentation, roundtable) developed to bring together […]
