The ECP Software Technology Update Report is Available
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has published a project overview and update report focused on the Software Technology efforts. The Application Development update report was released in September 2019. The third report in the series, an update on ECP’s Hardware and Integration activities, will be released in December 2019. ECP’s […]
App Consolidates ECP- and Exascale-related SC19 Sessions, Fosters Community
When SC19 takes place in Denver this year (November 17–22), the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) will again be represented in myriad sessions throughout the 6 days of the conference. ECP has created an app—called ECP@SC19—for SC19 attendees who are interested in finding and tracking ECP- and exascale-related sessions. The ECP@SC19 app provides a consolidated overview […]
2020 ECP Annual Meeting to Highlight Technical Successes
Program Will Emphasize Collaboration and Integration among the Many Widespread Teams The 2020 Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting will convene from February 3–7, 2020 at the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria, Houston, TX to highlight technical accomplishments and lessons learned and provide opportunities for networking, collaboration, education and training within the ECP community, including the […]
Q&A Highlights Project Aimed at Predicting Earthquake Damage to Infrastructure
From Berkeley Lab: A question-and-answer article with David McCallen, principal investigator of a project that is modeling a 7.0-magnitude earthquake along the Hayward Fault for different rupture scenarios, provides an overview of advances exascale computing could bring to research and to earthquake safety.
Registration is Open for the Upcoming Exascale Day Panel Discussion via Webcast
The founding organizations of National Exascale Day—the Exascale Computing Project, Cray, and Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories—will host a panel discussion via a webcast on Friday, October 18, at 11:00 a.m. EDT about how the advanced technology of the Exascale Era will change the face of computational science and foster advances. The […]
The ECP 2019 Application Development Report is Available
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has published a project overview and update report focused on the 2019 ECP Application Development efforts. The report is the first in a series of three documents to provide an in-depth update on activities related to ECP’s three technical focus areas: application development, software technology, […]
First Annual Exascale Day Celebrates Discoveries on the Fastest Supercomputers in the World
SEATTLE—October 2, 2019—Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, in partnership with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP), and the DOE laboratories that will house the nation’s first three exascale supercomputers: Argonne (ANL), Oak Ridge (ORNL) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) have established National Exascale Day as a registered holiday to be celebrated […]
Presentation: ‘ECP Application Development’
Andrew Siegel, director of Application Development for the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, recently presented “Exascale Computing Project Application Development” during the HPC User Forum at Argonne National Laboratory. The high-performance computing publication insideHPC captured the presentation on video. Siegel emphasized that ECP Application Development goes way beyond the porting of codes—it involves […]
‘How the Results of Summit and Sierra are Influencing Exascale’
Al Geist, chief technical officer of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, recently presented “How the Results of Summit and Sierra are Influencing Exascale” during the HPC User Forum at Argonne National Laboratory. The high-performance computing publication insideHPC captured the presentation on video.
Doug Kothe Provides Update on ECP at HPC User Forum
The high-performance computing industry publication insideHPC captured on video the update presentation that Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe gave at the recent HPC User Forum at Argonne National Laboratory.
ECP Team Reengineers Materials Simulation Code, Achieves Atypical Performance Increase
By Scott Gibson Within the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), the Exascale Atomistics for Accuracy, Length, and Time (EXAALT) project, led by Danny Perez of Los Alamos National Laboratory (photo), has made a big step forward by delivering a five-fold performance advance in addressing its fusion energy materials simulations challenge problem. The […]
Experts Weigh in on the Game-Changing Nature of Exascale Computing
A social network and blogging platform called Built In has published a Q&A by writer Mae Rice concerning how exascale, the next goal in the quest for greater computing power, will affect the future. The post features the perspectives of three subject-matter experts: Lori Diachin, deputy associate director for science and technology in the Computing […]
CANDLE will Advance Cancer Research and Other Areas as Well
An article on the US Department of Energy (DOE) website written by Andrea Peterson takes a look at the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE), a cross-cutting initiative of the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer (JDACS4C) collaboration that is supported by DOE’s Exascale Computing Project. The article describes what CANDLE is and aims […]
From HPCwire: Cray Wins NNSA–Livermore ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Contract
With a contract valued at $600 million, Cray will build the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The system, called El Capitan, is to be delivered to LLNL in late 2022, with full production targeted for late 2023. El Capitan will enable NNSA to continue […]
ECP’s ExaStar Project Seeks Answers Hidden in the Cosmos
By Scott Gibson Prodigious and mysterious, the cosmos has many important secrets to reveal through its stars exploding as supernovae and its colliding neutron stars and black holes. “In those astrophysical explosions, you reach some of the most extreme conditions in the universe, much greater than anything we can achieve here on Earth, and so […]
From insideHPC: PASC19 Panel Discussion on Software for Exascale and Beyond
Lois Curfman McIness of the Exascale Computing Project and Rich Brueckner of insideHPC moderated a panel discussion at the recent PASC19 Conference in Zurich. The conversation centered on the difficulties involved in developing productive and sustainable software for exascale computers and beyond.
Update with Director Doug Kothe—July 2019
Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Director Doug Kothe sat down with Mike Bernhardt, ECP communications manager, this month to talk about a variety of topics. Covered in the discussion were the aspects of ensuring that a capable exascale computing ecosystem will come to fruition in conjunction with the arrival of the nation’s first exascale systems, objectively […]
Assessing Progress, Considering ECP’s Enduring Legacy, and More
The latest issue of ECP Update presents another comprehensive interview with ECP Director Doug Kothe, this time discussing progress assessment and course correction, the consolidation of projects for technical synergy, ECP’s enduring legacy, and other topics.
Robustly Delivering Highly Accurate Computer Simulations of Complex Materials
By Scott Gibson The theory of quantum mechanics underlies explorations of the behavior of matter and energy in the atomic and subatomic realms. Computer simulations based on quantum mechanics are consequently essential in designing, optimizing, and understanding the properties of materials that have, for example, unusual magnetic or electrical properties. Such materials would have potential […]
CEED’s Impact on Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Efforts is Wide-Ranging
The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) within the US Department of Energy’s ECP is helping applications leverage future architectures by developing state-of-the-art discretization algorithms that better exploit the hardware and deliver a significant performance gain over conventional methods. The focus is on high-order methods for high-fidelity and better machine utilization, with a range of […]
