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OLCF’s 200 Petaflops Summit Machine Still Slated for 2018 Start-up

HPCwire reports on a talk by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility researcher Wayne Joubert on the status of the Summit supercomputer.

ECP Co-Design Center Achieves Orders of Magnitude Speed-Up in Latest Software Release

An article in HPCwire reports on the progress in software development of the Exascale Computing Project's Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Co-Design Center.

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

HPCwire: Exascale Computing to Help Accelerate Drive for Clean Fusion Energy

An article by Jon Bashor of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing Sciences examines the need for exascale computing power to advance research on fusion reactor design and highlights the potential for collaboration with industry partners who will require this kind of power.

insideHPC: Exascale Computing to Accelerate Clean Fusion Energy

Using supercomputers to model and simulate plasma behavior, scientists have made great strides toward building a working fusion reactor. Exascale systems will bring the promise of fusion energy closer.

Feature: Cartography of the Cosmos

John Spizzirri at Argonne National Laboratory writes about the "Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales" project, or "ExaSky," one of the first efforts funded by the Exascale Computing Project.

HPCwire on IDEAS-ECP Training from the Exascale Computing Project

HPCwire describes how IDEAS-ECP training delivers insight on software development to the research community.

insideHPC: Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director

  https://insidehpc.com/2017/09/exascale-computing-project-names-doug-kothe-director/

HPCwire: ECP Names Doug Kothe As New ECP Director

  https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/exascale-computing-project-names-doug-kothe-director/  

Slate Writes that Exascale Will Foster Competitiveness, Sustainability, and Security

Achieving exascale computing will result in more realistic models for predicting weather and earthquakes and for making many other essential scientific and technological advances.

From HPCwire: LBL’s Kathy Yelick on the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science

LBL's Kathy Yelick on the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science

Wired Magazine Takes a Look at ORNL’s Next Supercomputer

When Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory comes online next year, it will be the most powerful supercomputer in the country and perhaps in the world.

NREL Report: Wind Could Supply 20 Percent of US Energy by 2030

HPCwire summarizes a recent report from the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory that explains how supercomputing-led scientific advances could make wind a greater supplier of the country's energy needs.

ORNL Researchers Turn to Deep Learning to Solve Science’s Big Data Problems

A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been awarded nearly $2 million over three years from the Department of Energy to explore the potential of machine learning in revolutionizing scientific data analysis.

Getting the Most-Powerful Supercomputers Up and Running

The lessons the US Department of Energy Office of Science learns from the supercomputers at its user facilities will extend to launching its next high-performance computing challenge: exascale.

Energy Dept. shoots for exascale computer in a national lab by 2021

Energy Dept. shoots for exascale computer in a national lab by 2021

CANDLE Project Addresses Top Challenges

HPCwire details the Exascale Computing Project's effort aimed at building a scalable deep neural network code to take on the major challenges in cancer research.

ORNL Begins Construction of Summit Supercomputer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to install Summit. Besides providing unprecedented amounts of computational capacity for traditional high-performance computing applications, it will offer the largest platform in the world for deep learning workloads.

Commitment to Exascale Will Strengthen US Leadership

A recent EE Times blog post underscores the importance of supercomputing to society and the strength that public-private research partnerships such as the PathForward program of the Exascale Computing Project contribute to America's competitiveness and innovation.

Los Alamos Integrates Systems for Increased Stockpile Stewardship Computing Capability

The Trinity supercomputer’s two partitions sited at Los Alamos National Laboratory were merged, with both Xeon Haswell and the Xeon Phi Knights Landing processors available for production computing in the laboratory’s classified network.

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