Taking HACC into the Exascale Era: New Code Capabilities, and Challenges

The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC, and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP), organizes the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers.

As part of this series, we offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. The October webinar is titled Taking HACC into the Exascale Era: New Code Capabilities, and Challenges; and will be presented by Esteban Rangel (Argonne National Laboratory). The webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at 1:00 pm ET.

Abstract:

HACC (Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code) is a well-established code within the US Department of Energy community, and with a long history — having run on every flagship computing system for over a decade. Often participating in early-access programs for upcoming systems, an ongoing challenge for HACC developers is to not only contend with state-of-the-art architectures, but also with their initially supported, and often novel, programming models. The increased computing power brought about by today’s exascale systems has allowed HACC to support additional baryonic physics through a newly developed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) formalism called Conservative Reproducing Kernel (CRK). This webinar will discuss the challenges faced in preparing HACC for multiple exascale systems while simultaneously adding additional code capabilities, with ongoing development, all the while with a central focus on performance.