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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.

Helping Scientists Save Time and Strengthen Software Development

A mathematical, or numerical, software library is a collection of algorithms and software that can make the development of scientific applications better, faster, and cheaper. The Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Development Kit project coordinates and enables dependable mathematical software libraries designed and developed for exascale platforms.

ANL’s Rajeev Thakur: An Exascale Software Stack

ANL's Rajeev Thakur: Breaking Down the Exascale Software Stack

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.

Making It All Work: Developing a Software Stack for Exascale

(This is an introductory-level article targeted for readers somewhat new to HPC and exascale.) Without the invisible infrastructure called the software stack, even the world’s fastest computer wouldn’t compute much

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

Stepping Up Software for Exascale

An exascale software discussion with HPC veteran Jack Dongarra Professor Jack Dongarra is one of the distinguished SC Perennials, a group of 13 individuals who have attended each SC conference

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.

ECP Overview Presentation – Paul Messina – HPC User Forum

ECP Director, Paul Messina discusses ECP overview and progress at the 65th HPC User Forum - April 18, 2017.

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)

ECP Selects New Co-Design Center – coverage on insideHPC

  insideHPC covers announcement of new ECP Co-Design Center on Graph Analytics. As reported by insideHPC, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has selected its fifth Co-Design Center to focus on

ECP’s Fifth Co-Design Center Puts Focus on Graph Analytics

ECP has selected its fifth co-design center. It will focus on graph analytics, combinatorial kernels that play a crucial enabling role in many data analytic computing application areas as well as several ECP applications.

ORNL plays key role in Exascale Computing Project’s first year

Oak Ridge National Laboratory experts are playing leading roles in the recently established Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a multi-lab initiative responsible for developing the strategy, aligning

Focus Area: Application Development QA

Exascale Computing Project Q&A: Building science applications for a new era of supercomputers Applications are the tools that direct a computer to work on specific tasks. Scientific applications for high-performance

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