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R&D 100 Award-winning Software Enables I/O Performance Portability and Code Progress

Researchers involved with an input/output software product describe how it will enable users of high-performance computing systems to roll with the rapid pace of change.

Software Enables Use of Distributed In-System Storage and Parallel File System

UnifyFS software can provide I/O performance portability for applications, enabling them to use distributed in-system storage and the parallel file sy

ECP’s ExaStar Project Seeks Answers Hidden in the Cosmos

The ExaStar project aims to create simulations for comparison with experiments and observations to help answer a variety of questions.

Update with Director Doug Kothe—July 2019

Listen to the latest interview with ECP Director Doug Kothe through ECP's Let's Talk Exascale podcast.

Exascale Computing Could Drastically Boost the Capabilities of Energy Applications

Tom Evans, technical lead for ECP's Energy Applications projects, shares about the motivations, progress, and aspirations on the path to the exascale.

High Precision for Studying the Building Blocks of the Universe

The work of a project team in what is called lattice quantum chromodynamics is a critical complement to experimentation in particle and nuclear physics.

A Potential Revolution for X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facilities

Higher resolution and deeper insight along with much faster information delivery are ways exascale computing could improve imaging at X-ray free-electron laser facilities.

Predictive Simulations May Point to the Best Design for Fusion Reactors

The leader of a project that plans to simulate all aspects of a fusion energy reactor said exascale computing capability will transform the effort.

Codes to Solve Multiphysics Problems

The Ristra project, which is creating a set of codes targeting national-security-relevant multiphysics problems, is making solid progress both in terms of the physics needs and in demonstrating new computer science technologies.

The EZ Project Focuses on Providing Fast, Effective Exascale Lossy Compression for Scientific Data

Senior computer scientist Franck Cappello leads an effort to compress and reduce the enormous scientific data sets that some of the ECP applications are producing.

Addressing the Challenge of Continuous Integration of Software at Department of Energy Facilities

Dave Montoya of Los Alamos National Laboratory and ECP explains aspects of ensuring software in development for exascale is successfully integrated.

Demonstrating In-Situ Computer Simulation Visualization and Analysis on the Sierra Supercomputer

Cyrus Harrison, Eric Brugger, and Matt Larsen of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discuss the first large-scale demonstration of an important supercomputing technology.

A Powerful Tool for Improving Parallel Computing Applications

Sameer Shende, an expert on what's called the Tuning and Analysis (TAU) performance evaluation tool for applications, explains its features and benefits.

Aiming to Simulate the Universe with Maximal Computing Power

At the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas recently, Salman Habib of Argonne National Laboratory chatted with ECP Communications about cosmological computer modeling and simulation.

Efforts Directed at Making Wind Farms More Efficient

In November at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas, Michael Sprague of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory discussed a recent success of ECP’s wind energy research project, ExaWind.

ORNL’s David Bernholdt on the Importance of Message Passing Interface to Supercomputing

The Exascale Computing Project's (ECP) Mike Bernhardt chatted with David Bernholdt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory on November 14 at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas about his career, the evolution and significance of message passing interface (MPI) in parallel computing, and how ECP has influenced his team's efforts.

AMReX Helps Scientists Optimally Focus Computing Power on the Most Critical Problems

During the SC18 supercomputing conference, which took place in Dallas, November 11–16, Ann Almgren of the AMReX: Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) Co-Design Center team briefly described a simulation from an AMReX-supported project called Pele Combustion.

IDEAS-ECP Helps Ensure the Exascale Software Ecosystem is Optimally Productive and Sustainable

Mike Heroux and Lois McIness discuss the IDEAS (Interoperable Design of Extreme-Scale Application Software) effort for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP).

Using the Sierra Supercomputer to Explore the Mechanism of a Vicious Cancer

Machine learning, predictive simulation, and experimentation converge in a collaboration to explore the mechanism behind a vicious cancer.

Helping Scientists Create and Use Very Large Volumes of Data in ECP Activities

A research effort called Datalib: Data Libraries and Services Enabling Exascale Science helps scientists by enabling them to access and share data across platforms, by providing information for troubleshooting, and by building new specialized data services. Rob Ross, principal investigator for Datalib, shares about his team's approaches, successes, and more on the Let's Talk Exascale podcast.

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