Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: EQSIM
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 77: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: EQSIM By Scott Gibson If you follow what we do on the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, you know we explore the efforts of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), from the development challenges and achievements to the ultimate expected impact of exascale computing on society. […]
ECP Software Technology Makes Its Updated Capability Assessment Report Publicly Available
The latest update (V2.5) of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Software Technology (ST) Capability Assessment Report (CAR) is now available. It provides an overview and assessment of current ECP ST capabilities and activities, giving stakeholders and the broader high-performance computing (HPC) community information that can be used to assess ECP […]
Two ECP Researchers are Recognized with the E.O. Lawrence Award
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that Exascale Computing Project (ECP) researchers Daniel Kasen and Rob Ross were among eight recipients of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of DOE’s highest honors. The Lawrence Award, named for the founder of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was established in 1959. It honors US scientists and […]
Exploiting Exascale Computing to Make Earthquake Simulation Codes More Powerful
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 76: Exploiting Exascale Computing to Make Earthquake Simulation Codes More Powerful By Scott Gibson Historically, engineers and scientists have studied past earthquakes to try to predict future ones. But in the last decade or so, interest in using physics-based models and high-performance computing to simulate earthquake processes on large computers […]
Workflow Technologies Impact SC20 Gordon Bell COVID-19 Award Winner and Two of the Three Finalists
By Rob Farber, contributing writer This year the winner and two of three finalists of the SC20 Gordon Bell Special Award for COVID-19 competition leveraged the scalable workflow technologies brought together by the ECP ExaWorks project. The ExaWorks team sees this as a demonstration of the effectiveness of custom high-performance workflows that use high-quality scalable […]
Supporting Scientific Discovery and Data Analysis in the Exascale Era
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 75: Supporting Scientific Discovery and Data Analysis in the Exascale Era By Scott Gibson The Data and Visualization portfolio in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is delivering data management software necessary to store, save state, share, and facilitate the analysis of exascale data. The […]
The US DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Announces the Availability of the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) v1.2
The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) has just made the v1.2 release public. E4S is a community effort to provide open source software packages for developing, deploying and running scientific applications on most high-performance computing (HPC) platforms from laptops to supercomputers. The E4S v1.2 release is a significant new release that includes the majority of […]
The Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S): A New Resource for Computational and Data Science Research
By: Rob Farber, contributing writer The extreme-scale scientific software stack (E4S) provides a fundamentally new resource for computational and data science research communities. As an integrated, curated and tested portfolio of open-source, reusable scientific software components, E4S provides building blocks for the scientific community. Application developers can build directly on top of E4S, gaining access […]
Collaborative Strength Enables the EXAALT Project to Optimize GPU Performance
Exascale Computing Project · Collaborative Strength Enables the EXAALT Project to Optimize GPU Performance By Scott Gibson A dream of researchers is to cut the time it takes to develop new materials by using computer simulations almost exclusively. The outcomes could be better nuclear fuels and the right first wall materials for fusion reactors. Or […]
Digging into the Difficulties and Solutions in Reaching the Exascale
At insideHPC, Doug Black outlines the formidable set of technical challenges that revolves around engineering exascale-level supercomputers. The piece mines the views of executives from HPE, Intel, and AMD, exascale experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the vice president of research at the industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Read more.
Nextgov Article Conveys the Essence, Aims of Exascale Awareness Week
An article by Brandi Vincent on Nextgov hits the highlights of the recent Exascale Awareness Week leading up to Exascale Day, October 18, 2020. The story covers the impetus for the celebration—sharing the importance of exascale computing to the nation—the planned first exascale machines and the status of the rollout, and the US Department of Energy’s […]
Early Science Program to Prepare Scientific Applications for Aurora
On HPCwire, Linda Barney writes about how researchers in the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Early Science Program (ESP) are helping to ensure critical scientific applications are ready to reap the benefits of the upcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer. The article states that ESP efforts have already produced some exciting research and provided insights concerning system architecture and […]
Machine Learning, Neural Networks Probe the Interactions of Water Molecules
An article by Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) on Technology.org shares how machine learning algorithms, the basis of neural networks, are bringing new scientific discoveries closer to reality. Highlighted in the piece is the work of the ExaLearn Co-Design Center in the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project. ExaLearn focuses on machine learning technologies. […]
Intel Executive Discusses Engagement with Energy Department, Argonne, and ECP
Exascale Computing Project · Intel Executive Discusses Engagement with Energy Department, Argonne, and ECP By Scott Gibson Patricia (Trish) Damkroger is an expert in high-performance computing (HPC) and has more than 27 years of managerial experience in both the public and private sectors. Her current role is vice president and general manager of the […]
Exascale Day Audio: Ai Kagawa
Impact Area: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Transcript Hello, my name’s Ai Kagawa from Brookhaven National Lab. My area of research, and something I’m quite passionate about, is reinforcement learning and parallel computing. As part of the project I work on, funded by the Exascale Computing Project, ExaLearn, I have the opportunity to imagine the possibility of […]
Science at Exascale: The Art of Dealing with the Tension Between More and Less Data
By Franck Cappello1 with Bogdan Nicolae1, Sheng Di1, Kathryn Mohror2, Adam Moody2 and Greg Kosinovsky2 1Argonne National Laboratory 2Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Exascale will undoubtedly mark a historical milestone in scientific computing. However, exascale scientific computing will also be marked by the need to deal with an important tension. On the one side, users […]
Modernizing Computing to Usher in the Next Generation of Scientific Discoveries
By Pat McCormick Exascale can mean different things based on your experience and the role you play in taking our computing capabilities to the next level. In the past, I was fortunate enough to see the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of the initial leadership team. Today, as a technical project leader for three […]
Collaboration at Exascale
By Ulrike Meier Yang The pursuit of exascale promises larger and faster computers capable of performing increasingly more complex simulations at unprecedented scale, leading to better science. Achieving this goal requires not only technical advancements, such as hardware with faster components and larger memories, but also advanced software capable of taking full advantage of the […]
Exascale Computing: A Time for Introspection
by Sameer Shende As we near this important milestone in High Performance Computing, I believe we may need to step back and examine the key choices we have made so far and refactor our codes to take advantage of such extreme levels of performance. While I have no doubt that we will reach the performance […]
Exascale Computing Project Software Ecosystem and Delivery
By Todd Munson A vibrant, high-quality software ecosystem is essential to realizing the full potential of exascale computing resources in helping to solve some of the world’s greatest scientific challenges. The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has brought the scientific software community together to address various types of software-related issues, such as quality and sustainability. As […]
