Exascale Day Audio: Jackie Chen
Impact Area: Combustion Science Transcript Hi, I’m Jackie Chen. I’m a computational combustion scientist at Sandia National Labs in the Combustion Research Facility. I’m the principal investigator of an exascale computing project called Pele Combustion. We’re developing a suite of adaptive mesh refinement combustion codes for first-principles high-fidelity simulations of turbulent combustion aimed at […]
Exascale Day Audio: Steven Hamilton
Impact Area: Nuclear Reactor Design Transcript My name is Steven Hamilton and I work in the Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Within the Exascale Computing Project, I am leading a subproject called ExaSMR, which is an effort to advance the state of the art for computational modeling of nuclear reactors, with […]
Exascale Day Audio: Tzanio Kolev
Impact Area: Discretization Algorithms Transcript My name is Tzanio Kolev and I am a computational mathematician at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I am also the director of the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) in the ECP [Exascale Computing Project] where we develop cutting-edge (discretization) algorithms for large-scale simulation codes. These algorithms, including high-order […]
Exascale Day Audio: Meifeng Lin
Impact Area: Computational Physics Transcript I am Meifeng Lin from Brookhaven National Laboratory. I am a computational scientist and the group leader of high-performance computing at the Computational Science Initiative. I have been working on the exascale application development project called “Lattice QCD.” Lattice QCD is a numerical framework that allows us to simulate […]
Exascale Day Audio: Katrin Heitmann
Impact Area: Cosmological Science Transcript I’m Katrin Heitmann of Argonne National Laboratory, and I’m part of the High Energy Physics division at Argonne. My area of research is computational cosmology, and as part of my research I’m funded by the Exascale Computing Project to work on the ExaSky project. ExaSky—basically, the title tells you […]
Exascale Day Audio: Kathryn Mohror
Impact Area: Data Management and Analysis Transcript I’m Kathryn Mohror from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and I work in the area of I/O [input/output] for high-performance computing systems. And what I’m really passionate about is figuring out how to make I/O and data management easier and faster for application users. I work on the […]
Exascale Day Audio: Jean-Luc Vay
Impact Area: Particle Accelerators Transcript Hi, I’m Jean-Luc Vay from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I’m the PI [principal investigator] of one of the exascale computing projects, and we develop code to simulate a new type of particle accelerators that have the potential to be much shorter and cheaper than conventional accelerators. What is very […]
Exascale Day Audio: Danny Perez
Impact Area: Computational Materials Science Transcript My name is Danny Perez from the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since my days as an undergraduate, I have been passionate about developing novel computational approaches to study materials. Originally, I was driven by the idea of finding computationally inexpensive ways to answer the questions I had […]
Solving Big Questions Takes Big Computing Power—and a Robust Software Development Tools Portfolio
By Matt Lakin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory When the U.S. Department of Energy presses the start button on the world’s first generation of exascale supercomputers, scientists won’t want to wait to take full advantage of the unprecedented power behind the screens. The inaugural pair of machines, Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, and Frontier […]
More-Effective Medicines, Better Batteries, and Greater Control over 3D Parts Creation Could Come in the Era of Exascale Computing
By Scott Gibson With the arrival of exascale computing in 2021, researchers expect to have the power to describe the underlying properties of matter and optimize and control the design of new materials and energy technologies at levels that otherwise would have been impossible. “Computer simulations have become an increasingly important tool in precisely understanding […]
ECP Researcher is Chosen for Energy Department Office of Science Honor
Jacqueline Chen, who leads the Combustion-Pele subproject in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP), has been selected by DOE’s Office of Science as a distinguished scientist fellow. She is one of only eight researchers in the nation to hold the distinction. Known as a pioneer in advanced computational methods to understand […]
Special—ECP Leadership Discusses Project Highlights, Challenges, and the Expected Impact of Exascale Computing
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 72: Special—ECP Leadership Discusses Project Highlights, Challenges, & the Expected Impact Transcript Bernhardt: Welcome to this special episode of Let’s Talk Exascale. For this special update, I’m your host, Mike Bernhardt. I’ll be joined today by members of the leadership team of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project. Today we’ll […]
Accelerating New Advances in Wind Power with the Summit Supercomputer
In a press release, General Electric (GE) announces that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted GE access to the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to accelerate the investigation of wind power in support of renewable energy. The release states that the knowledge acquired will strengthen DOE’s leadership in exascale […]
Scaling up Clean Fossil Fuel Combustion Technology for Industrial Use
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 71: Scaling up Clean Fossil Fuel Combustion Technology for Industrial Use By Scott Gibson Disharmony between humanity’s desires for both economic prosperity and a healthy environment has been growing since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Today, as 80 percent of the world’s energy is derived from the burning of […]
Argonne Lab Conducts Groundbreaking Simulation of Flow Inside Combustion Engine
At Argonne National Laboratory, Ginger Reilly writes about the achievement of a key milestone: scientists across Argonne have collaborated on the largest-ever simulation of flow inside an internal combustion engine. The work was done on the Theta system, with calculations performed using Argonne’s fluid-thermal simulation code, Nek5000, which was recognized with the Gordon Bell prize […]
Delving into Highly Efficient Fast Fourier Transform for Exascale Computing
A feature article contributed to the high-performance computing (HPC) industry publication HPCwire by Jack Dongarra and Stanimire Tomov of the University of Tennessee examines what is called Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) relative to exascale computing. FFT is considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century. At the heart of the piece is […]
E3SM-MMF: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
Exascale Computing Project · Episode 70: E3SM-MMF: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence By Scott Gibson Scientists aim to forecast water resources and severe weather with greater confidence and understand how to deal with associated changes to the food supply. Having those capabilities is important to multiple sectors of the US and […]
Project will Enhance Livermore Computing Center in Preparation for Exascale
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently announced that it had broken ground on its Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project, which will significantly expand the power and cooling capacity of the Livermore Computing Center to get it ready for next-generation exascale supercomputing hardware. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2022. The upgrades to the Livermore […]
Major Update of the MFEM Finite Element Library Broadens GPU Support
By Scott Gibson Exascale Computing Project · Episode 69: Major Update of the MFEM Finite Element Library Broadens GPU Support The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) recently released version 4.1 of its MFEM finite element library, which introduces features important for the nation’s first exascale supercomputers. MFEM (modular finite element methods) is open-source scientific software […]
ExaAM Project Aims to Transform Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation
By Scott Gibson Exascale Computing Project · Episode 68: ExaAM Project Aims to Transform Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is revolutionary. The reason is that it enables customized and efficient design of parts and products—from very precise implants to military body armor, aeronautic parts, and myriad other items. […]
