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Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale and Beyond

The Exascale Era is here.

Siting the El Capitan Exascale Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Lab is preparing for El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s first exascale supercomputer.

Enabling Cross-Project Research to Strengthen Math Libraries for Scientific Simulations

Project teams can improve the capabilities of math libraries, the foundation of scientific simulations, via cross-project research.

Community Event Hits Upon Software Development for Next-Gen GPU Architectures

ECP's Birds-of-a-Feather Days, May 10–12, will give developers the chance to learn about leading-edge software and performance-analysis tools.

Revisiting the E4S Software Ecosystem Upon Release of Version 22.02

The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) continues to evolve as a broad collection of software capabilities for scientific research.

Helping Users Deploy High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries in a Consistent Interoperable Software Stack

The latest version of the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) provides support for three different GPU architectures.

Optimizing the North American Power Grid to Improve Reliability and Support Grid Decarbonization

The ExaSGD project wants to enable the day-to-day operation of the national power grid to hold a large number of renewable power sources.

Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: EQSIM

ECP’s special podcast series on preparing code for the Aurora exascale system begins by focusing on an earthquake risk assessment application.

Exploiting Exascale Computing to Make Earthquake Simulation Codes More Powerful

Simulating earthquake processes from end to end is key to being able to design bridges and buildings to be more resilient to earthquakes.

Supporting Scientific Discovery and Data Analysis in the Exascale Era

ECP's Data and Visualization portfolio is delivering data management software to store, save state, share, and facilitate the analysis of exascale data.

Flexible Package Manager Automates the Deployment of Software on Supercomputers

Spack (Supercomputer PACKage manager) is an R&D 100–Award winner because of its worldwide impact on high-performance computing.

Reducing the Memory Footprint and Data Movement on Exascale Systems

The ZFP software development effort is tackling the critical task of overcoming the performance cost of data movement for exascale computing.

Delivering Exascale Machine Learning Algorithms and Tools for Scientific Research

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics are converging with high-performance computing to advance scientific discovery.

Method Enables Collaborative Software Teams to Enhance Effectiveness and Efficiency

Productivity Sustainability Improvement Planning enables software developers to identify development bottlenecks and track progress to overcome them.

Optimizing Math Libraries to Prepare Applications for Exascale Computing

The Let's Talk Exascale podcast looks at the xSDK4ECP and hypre projects with Ulrike Meier Yang of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

An Alternative to OpenMP and an On-Ramp to Future C++ Standards

Christian Trott of Sandia National Laboratories shares insights about Kokkos, a programming model for numerous Exascale Computing Project applications.

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

CANDLE will Advance Cancer Research and Other Areas as Well

An article on the US Department of Energy website takes a look at the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment, or CANDLE.

From HPCwire: Cray Wins NNSA–Livermore ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Contract

Cray will build El Capitan, the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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