Exascale Computing Project Podcast
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem to provide breakthrough solutions that will address America's most critical challenges in scientific discovery, energy assurance, economic competitiveness, and national security. Let’s Talk Exascale explores Application Development, Software Technology, and Hardware and Integration—focus areas of the ECP.
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Episodes
Episode 105: Computing Luminary Jack Dongarra’s Perspective on the Exascale Computing Project
June 23, 2023 21:02 - 22 minutes - 16 MBEpisode notes: Jack Dongarra says ECP has been a great success in terms of human and technical accomplishments but post-project follow-on is critical.
Episode 104: Siting the El Capitan Exascale Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab.
May 24, 2023 21:27 - 31 minutes - 23.9 MBEpisode notes: Lawrence Livermore National Lab is preparing for El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s first exascale supercomputer.
Episode 103: Revisiting the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) Project
May 03, 2023 16:44 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBEpisode notes: The CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) project provides deep-learning computing methodologies for accelerating cancer research.
Episode 102: Delivering Impactful Science, Deploying Aurora, and Partnering with ECP at the ALCF
February 27, 2023 15:46 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBEpisode notes: Katherine Riley leads a team of computational science experts who work with facility users to maximize their use of ALCF computing resources.
Episode 101: Discussing NERSC's Unique Global Role and Close Collaboration with ECP
January 13, 2023 21:06 - 29 minutes - 25.9 MBEpisode notes: Richard Gerber ensures the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center remains responsive to the needs of scientific researchers.
Episode 100: Reflecting on the ‘Why’ behind Supercomputing Simulations: Advancing Science
December 16, 2022 18:32 - 28 minutes - 17.6 MBEpisode notes: Bronson Messer, director of science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, has an expert perspective on supercomputing for science.
Episode 99: ECP's WarpX Team Successfully Models Promising Laser Plasma Accelerator Technology
November 16, 2022 21:58 - 32 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode notes: ECP research could remove a major limitation of laser plasma accelerators, a technology that may improve many walks of life.
Episode 98: Providing Exascale-Class Multiphysics Simulation Capability to Multiple Science Domains
October 20, 2022 14:09 - 29 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode notes: Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package, integrates tools that provide a performance portability solution for exascale computing.
Episode 97 Enabling Highly Accurate and Reliable Predictions of the Basic Properties of Materials
July 28, 2022 19:07 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBEpisode notes: The QMCPACK project intends to provide the capability to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the quantum level.
Episode 97: Enabling Highly Accurate and Reliable Predictions of the Basic Properties of Materials
July 28, 2022 19:07 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBEpisode notes: The QMCPACK project intends to provide the capability to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the quantum level.
Episode 96: Leveraging Machine Learning for Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering
June 16, 2022 15:58 - 18 minutes - 14.1 MBEpisode notes: Machine learning technologies are creating inspiring new opportunity vistas for scientific discovery and research at the exascale.
Episode 95: Enabling Cross-Project Research to Strengthen Math Libraries for Scientific Simulations
May 03, 2022 18:46 - 24 minutes - 16.2 MBEpisode notes: Project teams can improve the capabilities of math libraries, the foundation of scientific simulations, via cross-project research.
Episode 94: Revisiting the E4S Software Ecosystem Upon Release of Version 22.02
March 30, 2022 14:17 - 16 minutes - 12.7 MBEpisode notes: The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) continues to evolve as a broad collection of software capabilities for scientific research.
Episode 93: Preparing the PETSc/TAO Software Suite to Support Exascale Scientific Applications
March 09, 2022 17:27 - 23 minutes - 20.1 MBEpisode notes: An Exascale Computing Project team is getting the longtime open-source PETSc/TAO software suite ready to support exascale applications.
Episode 92: Helping Users Deploy High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries
December 14, 2021 13:54 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MBEpisode notes: The latest version of the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) provides support for three different GPU architectures.
Episode 91: Let's Talk Exascale Code Development: CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE)
December 07, 2021 15:07 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBEpisode notes: ECP plays key support roles in the CANDLE project, which is addressing three significant science challenge problems in cancer research.
Episode 90: Frontier: Designing the Electrical Infrastructure for Unprecedented Power Demands
November 02, 2021 13:35 - 12 minutes - 7.15 MBEpisode Notes: Effective communications, humble problem-solving, lessons learned, and synergy are success factors in realizing the Frontier supercomputer.
Episode 89: Helping Large-Scale Multiphysics Engineering and Scientific Applications
October 29, 2021 18:00 - 25 minutes - 13.4 MBEpisode Notes: Trilinos, a federated group of software packages with guiding principles, offers much autonomy in solving engineering and science problems.
Episode 88: Frontier: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems
October 22, 2021 16:30 - 13 minutes - 8.19 MBEpisode Notes: Engineer David Grant must check and recheck many important design details before Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer, is powered on.
Episode 87: Frontier: ORNL’s Justin Whitt on Deploying the Nation’s First Exascale Supercomputer
October 18, 2021 18:49 - 9 minutes - 6.2 MBEpisode Notes: Justin Whitt describes what Frontier will do, why it's unique, progress with deployment, what’s special about exascale computing, and more.
Episode 86: An Interview with Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe
October 17, 2021 22:41 - 24 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode Notes: Doug Kothe explains the need for ECP, the why and how of its origin, its unique team dynamics, and its enduring legacy.
Episode 85: Sunita Chandrasekaran on Teaching Supercomputing and Leading the ECP SOLLVE Project
October 04, 2021 21:35 - 18 minutes - 13.2 MBEpisode Notes: As principal investigator of the ECP SOLLVE project, Sunita Chandrasekaran emphasizes the development of sustainable software.
Episode 84: The Flux Software Framework Manages and Schedules Modern Supercomputing Workflows
September 13, 2021 17:39 - 35 minutes - 25.9 MBEpisode Notes: Flux manages and schedules scientific workflows to optimize computing and other resources and enable applications to run faster and better.
Episode 83: Optimizing North American Power Grid to Improve Reliability and Grid Decarbonization
July 29, 2021 12:57 - 13 minutes - 8.14 MBEpisode Notes: 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.
Episode 82: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: WDMapp—XGC, GENE, GEM
July 09, 2021 12:54 - 49 minutes - 28.3 MBEpisode Notes: The latest in the code-for-Aurora series explores an app aimed at high-fidelity whole device modeling of magnetically confined fusion plasmas.
Episode 81: Applying Graph Algorithms to Solve Key Science Problems of Importance to the Nation
June 30, 2021 15:28 - 36 minutes - 25 MBEpisode Notes: ExaGraph aims to leave a lasting legacy of algorithms, implementations, and graph-enabled applications for scientific discovery.
Episode 80: Update with Doug Kothe: Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights, and More
May 17, 2021 19:13 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBEpisode Notes: Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe discusses the state of the project, the recent Annual Meeting, and other topics.
Episode 79: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: HACC
April 01, 2021 19:51 - 22 minutes - 13.4 MBEpisode Notes: This time, ECP's special podcast series on preparing code for the Aurora exascale supercomputer takes a look at the cosmological code HACC.
Episode 78: Ensuring the Exascale Ecosystem Lands Successfully at Energy Department Facilities.
March 23, 2021 15:27 - 17 minutes - 11 MBEpisode Notes: The Exascale Computing Project Software Deployment at Facilities project tests and verifies software functionality and efficiency.
Episode 77: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: EQSIM
February 08, 2021 15:56 - 18 minutes - 11.6 MBEpisode Notes: ECP’s podcast series on preparing code for the Aurora exascale system begins by focusing on an earthquake risk assessment application.
Episode 76: Exploiting Exascale Computing to Make Earthquake Simulation Codes More Powerful
December 22, 2020 19:57 - 16 minutes - 10.8 MBEpisode Notes: Simulating earthquake processes from end to end is key to being able to design bridges and buildings to be more resilient to earthquakes.
Episode 75: Supporting Scientific Discovery and Data Analysis in the Exascale Era
December 03, 2020 17:40 - 18 minutes - 11.3 MBEpisode Notes: ECP's Data and Visualization portfolio is delivering data management software to store, save state, share, and facilitate the analysis of exascale data.
Episode 74: Collaborative Strength Enables the EXAALT Project to Optimize GPU Performance
November 03, 2020 20:41 - 22 minutes - 12.1 MBThe EXAALT project could bring atomistic materials predictions to the engineering scale and demystify materials design and synthesis.
Intel Executive Discusses Engagement with Energy Department, Argonne, and ECP
October 15, 2020 13:31 - 7 minutes - 4.8 MBEpisode Notes: Intel executive Trish Damkroger shares her excitement over exascale computing and the design of the Aurora supercomputer.
Episode 73: Intel Executive Discusses Engagement with Energy Department, Argonne, and ECP
October 15, 2020 13:31 - 7 minutes - 4.8 MBEpisode Notes: Intel executive Trish Damkroger shares her excitement over exascale computing and the design of the Aurora supercomputer.
Episode 72: Special—ECP Leadership Discusses Project Highlights, Challenges, & the Expected Impact
August 19, 2020 19:19 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBEpisode Notes: Members of the Exascale Computing Project leadership team summarize the state of the project and delve into the major accomplishments.
Episode 71: Scaling up Clean Fossil Fuel Combustion Technology for Industrial Use
July 22, 2020 17:24 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBEpisode Notes: Exascale computing could help researchers prepare promising carbon-capture and storage technologies to go from the lab to commercial settings.
Episode 70: E3SM-MMF: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
June 25, 2020 20:34 - 17 minutes - 11.1 MBEpisode Notes: By exploiting the power and performance advantages of GPUs and exascale computing, researchers aim to better predict changes to Earth’s water cycles.
Episode 69: Major Update of the MFEM Finite Element Library Broadens GPU Support
June 08, 2020 21:02 - 6 minutes - 4.85 MBEpisode Notes: The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) recently released version 4.1 of its MFEM software, with features for exascale.
Episode 68: ExaAM Project Aims to Transform Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation
May 27, 2020 20:51 - 25 minutes - 13.7 MBEpisode Notes: John Turner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides a look at additive manufacturing and the ExaAM project from different angles.
Episode 67: Flexible Package Manager Automates the Deployment of Software on Supercomputers
April 28, 2020 15:54 - 5 minutes - 5.41 MBEpisode Notes: Spack (Supercomputer PACKage manager) is an R&D 100–Award winner because of its worldwide impact on high-performance computing.
Episode 66: Reducing the Memory Footprint and Data Movement on Exascale Systems
April 16, 2020 13:42 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBEpisode Notes: The ZFP software development effort is tackling the critical task of overcoming the performance cost of data movement for exascale computing.
Episode 65: Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing
April 07, 2020 13:57 - 7 minutes - 7.19 MBEpisode Notes: Container technology has provided greater software flexibility, reliability, ease of deployment, and portability—an ECP project aims to deliver it for exascale computing systems.
Episode 64: Creating the Ability to Design Smaller, Cheaper Particle Accelerators
March 26, 2020 13:22 - 9 minutes - 8.43 MBEpisode Notes: The WarpX project is developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research to pave the way for new virtual experiments.
Episode 63: Delivering Exascale Machine Learning Algorithms and Tools for Scientific Research
March 12, 2020 19:16 - 10 minutes - 9.81 MBEpisode Notes: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics are converging with high-performance computing to advance scientific discovery.
Episode 62: Collaborative Community Impacts High-Performance Computing Programming Environments
March 06, 2020 19:57 - 10 minutes - 9.83 MBEpisode Notes: LLVM within the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project is an open-source collaboration project that develops a compiler infrastructure.
Episode 61: Helping Applications Use Future Architectures with First-Rate Discretization Libraries
February 26, 2020 19:33 - 9 minutes - 8.97 MBEpisode Notes: The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) is a hub for high-order mathematical methods to increase application efficiency and performance.
Episode 60: Simplifying the Deployment of High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries
February 18, 2020 15:08 - 8 minutes - 7.84 MBThe Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) lowers barriers by accelerating the development, deployment, and use of software.
Episode 59: Ushering in a New Approach to Scientific Computing
February 14, 2020 15:11 - 7 minutes - 6.6 MBEpisode Notes: CODAR, an Exascale Computing Project co-design center, aims to produce an infrastructure for online data analysis and reduction.
Episode 58: Project Update: Excellent Review Results, Readiness for Accelerated Architectures, More
February 06, 2020 17:34 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBEpisode Notes: Disciplined and tailored project management led to very impressive results for ECP in a comprehensive independent review.