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Special—ECP Leadership Discusses Project Highlights, Challenges, and the Expected Impact of Exascale Computing

Members of the Exascale Computing Project leadership team summarize the state of the project and delve into the major accomplishments.

ECP’s ExaWind Project is Featured in Renewable Energy Magazine

Writer Jennifer Huber of NERSC delves into ExaWind's science challenge problem, its use of the computational code called Nalu-Wind, and its collaboration.

Collaboration Aims to More Accurately Predict Wind Farm Flow Physics

Jennifer Huber of NERSC writes about how the ExaWind project is advancing our basic understanding of the flow physics governing wind plant performance.

Creating the Ability to Design Smaller, Cheaper Particle Accelerators

The WarpX project is developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research that will pave the way for new breeds of virtual experiments.

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.

Better Scientific Productivity through Better Scientific Software: The IDEAS Report

A newly released report introduces work to advance software productivity and sustainability for extreme-scale computational science.

Rewriting a Legacy Computational Chemistry Software Package for Larger Simulations and Exascale Speed

A collaborative team is working to get NWChem ready to run on exascale machines and to provide a starting point for future code development.

Providing Exascale Solutions for the Assembly and Analysis of Metagenomic Data

Kathy Yelick and Lenny Oliker of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory explain why understanding microbial communities is so important.

Tackling the Complex Task of Software Deployment and Continuous Integration at Facilities

Ensuring speedup for exascale, managing dependencies and versions, and fostering great collaborative communication are key in deploying ECP software.

Q&A Highlights Project Aimed at Predicting Earthquake Damage to Infrastructure

A question-and-answer article from Berkeley Lab checks in with David McCallen, principal investigator of a project that is modeling the Hayward Fault.

Q&A Considers the Landscape of Computing in the Era Beyond Exascale

A Q&A shares the thoughts of John Shalf of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory about what high-performance computing may be like after Moore's Law ends.

ECP in the News: Story Roundup

Here are some of the latest instances of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in the news.

Recent Success Snapshots: Application Highlight Roundup

Narrative snapshots in time chronicle highlights of some of the Application Development efforts within ECP.

Researchers Gear Up for Exascale at ECP Meeting in Houston (from insideHPC)

Lawrence Berkeley Lab outlines its contributions—from plenary talks to tutorials, breakout sessions, and posters—at ECP's Annual Meeting in Houston.

Summit Supercomputer Breaks Exaop Barrier on Neural Net Trained to Recognize Extreme Weather Patterns

The insideHPC blog reports that a team of computational scientists from Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories, and engineers from NVIDIA has demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has for the first time broken the exaop barrier.

Educating for Exascale

Some 25 graduate and post-graduate students recently spent four intense days preparing for the next generation of parallel supercomputers and exascale at the Parallel Computing in Molecular Sciences (ParCompMolSci) Summer School and Workshop hosted by Berkeley Lab.

ECP Announces New Co-Design Center to Focus on Exascale Machine Learning Technologies

New ExaLearn Co-Design Center to be led by Brookhaven National Laboratory's Francis (Frank) Alexander. The Exascale Computing Project has initiated its sixth Co-Design Center, ExaLearn, to be led by Principal

New Simulations Break Down Potential Impact of a Major Quake by Building Location and Size

With unprecedented resolution, scientists and engineers are simulating precisely how a large-magnitude earthquake along the Hayward Fault would affect different locations and buildings across the San Francisco Bay Area.

Exascale Holds the Key to Generating Realistic and Accurate Scenarios of Future Earthquakes

Computer simulation has become an essential and core component of earthquake design for major infrastructure, but researchers need to better understand and quantify future earthquakes. Exascale computing could allow for the realization of such advances. Learn more on Let's Talk Exascale.

ECP: Shaking Things up With Earthquake Simulation

Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory scientists have used some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to model ground

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