Focus Area: Application Development

The Anticipated Scientific Impact of Exascale: Fusion Energy, X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers, Quantum Chromodynamics

A few research project leaders share what they hope exascale computing will make possible.

Recent Success Snapshots: Application Highlight Roundup

Narrative snapshots in time chronicle highlights of some of the Application Development efforts within ECP.

ECP Speakers at User Forum

April 1–3 at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe, NM, team members from the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) gave talks on the ExaLearn Co-Design Center and activities in the development of software technologies. The videos were captured and published by the high-performance computing Industry blog insideHPC.

Exawind Project Demonstrates Blade-Resolved Simulation of NREL 5 MW Reference Wind Turbine

HPCwire October 25, 2018 https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/exawind-project-demonstrates-blade-resolved-simulation-of-nrel-5-mw-reference-wind-turbine/

AMRex Co-Design Center Helps Five Application Projects Reach Performance Goals

ECP's AMReX Co-Design Center makes available a state-of-the-art AMR infrastructure with the functionality that five ECP application projects and other

Spotlight on ECP’s Cancer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) Project

In a video chat, Rick Stevens, principal investigator for the Cancer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) project within ECP, shares information about, and highlights from, CANDLE, a collaborative effort involving four US Department of Energy national laboratories.

ECP Announces New Co-Design Center to Focus on Exascale Machine Learning Technologies

New ExaLearn Co-Design Center to be led by Brookhaven National Laboratory's Francis (Frank) Alexander. The Exascale Computing Project has initiated its sixth Co-Design Center, ExaLearn, to be led by Principal

ECP: Shaking Things up With Earthquake Simulation

Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory scientists have used some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to model ground

The Exascale Data and Visualization Project

Jim Ahrens of Los Alamos National Laboratory gives insights about the ECP Data and Visualization project in the Let's Talk Exascale podcast.

ECP Launches “Let’s Talk Exascale” Podcast Series

The insideHPC blog reports on the new podcast that explores the activities, challenges, accomplishments, and science impact of the Exascale Computing Project.

Understanding, Storing, and Curating Scientific Data at Exascale

The Data and Visualization project is responsible for the storage and visualization aspects of the ECP and for helping its researchers understand, store, and curate scientific data. The Let's Talk Exascale podcast features a conversation with the project's principal investigator, Jim Ahrens of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Hair-Raising Potential of Exascale Animation

As the development and accessibility of high-performance computers explode beyond current limits, so too will the creative possibilities for the future of CG animation ignite.

Assessing regional earthquake risk and hazards in the age of exascale

From Science Daily Assessing regional earthquake risk and hazards in the age of exascale With emerging exascale supercomputers, researchers will soon be able to accurately simulate the ground motions of

Exascale Computing to Help Accelerate Drive for Clean Fusion Energy

Exascale Computing to Help Accelerate Drive for Clean Fusion Energy Jon Bashor Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing Sciences   For decades, scientists have struggled to create a clean, unlimited energy

Berkeley Lab Researchers Share Best Paper Award at Intel Workshop

Researchers from Berkeley Lab are co-authors of a paper receiving a best paper award at the June 22 Intel Xeon Phi User's Group workshop.

Cloud-Resolving Climate Modeling of Earth’s Water Cycle

Severe weather events are driven by the physics of convection. By simulating convective storms at a high resolution of one kilometer, scientists can improve predictions of regional water cycles.

CEED Co-Design Center Launches New Website

The website for the ECP's Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) co-design center is now live. CEED is one of the ECP’s five co-design centers established to overcome performance barriers

Doug Kothe on the Race to Build Exascale Applications

HPCwire's John Russel interviewed Doug Kothe, the Exascale Computing Project's Director of Application Development for this feature article on 'The Race to Build Exascale Applications.' https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/05/29/doug-kothe-race-build-exascale-applications/    

Coupled Monte Carlo Neutronics and Fluid Flow Simulation of Small Modular Reactors (ExaSMR)

Tom Evans from Oak Ridge National Laboratory discusses “Coupled Monte Carlo Neutronics and Fluid Flow Simulation of Small Modular Reactors (ExaSMR)” – research being conducted as part of the Exascale Computing Project.

LBNL, PNNL Researchers Make NWChem’s Planewave “Purr”

  LBNL, PNNL Researchers Make NWChem’s Planewave “Purr” on Intel’s Knights Landing Architectures A team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

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