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Exascale Computing Project Podcast

108 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

The 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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Episode 8: Addressing Fault Tolerance and Providing Data Reduction at Exascale

February 08, 2018 12:59 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

The VeloC project endeavors to provide ECP applications an optimal fault-tolerance environment, while the aim of the EZ project is to provide data reduction. Guest: Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/addressing-fault-tolerance-and-providing-data-reduction-at-exascale/

Episode 7: Delivering Efficient Parallel I/O with HDF5 on Exascale Computing Systems

February 01, 2018 14:11 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

The ExaHDF5 project is making HDF5, one of the most popular parallel I/O libraries in high-end supercomputing, ready for exascale. Guests: Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Quincey Koziol, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/delivering-efficient-parallel-io-with-hdf5-on-exascale-computing-systems/

Episode 6: Picking the Best Set of Proxy Apps to Represent ECP Applications

January 29, 2018 22:17 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

The Proxy Apps project is curating a collection of proxy apps that will represent the real applications of importance to the ECP. Guest: David Richards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/picking-best-set-proxy-apps-represent-ecp-applications/

Episode 5: Conducting Unbiased Annual Evaluations of ECP Applications

January 23, 2018 20:07 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB

The Application Assessment project was designed to conduct unbiased annual evaluations of the capability, computational performance and scaling, and performance portability of ECP computer codes. Guest: Kenny Roche, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/conducting-unbiased-annual-evaluations-of-ecp-applications/

Episode 4: Extending the Reach of Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Leveraging Exascale

January 09, 2018 17:30 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

The Exascale Atomistic Capability for Accuracy, Length, and Time (EXAALT) project specializes in molecular dynamics simulations of materials. Guest: Danny Perez, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/extending-reach-molecular-dynamics-simulations-leveraging-exascale/

Episode 3: Making Components of GAMESS Software More Scalable

January 03, 2018 17:25 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MB

A conversation with Ames Laboratory’s Mark Gordon on the GAMESS project Mark Gordon, Ames Laboratory Associate and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University, spoke with Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Communications at SC17 in Denver. Gordon is the principal investigator for the ECP project called General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS), which is developing methods for computational chemistry. We talked to him about various details of the project and what it...

Episode 2: Understanding, Storing, and Curating Scientific Data at Exascale

December 20, 2017 21:35 - 7 minutes - 7.29 MB

A conversation with Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Jim Ahrens on his ECP Data and Visualization project. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/understanding-storing-curating-scientific-data-exascale/

Episode 1: Lighting the Way to Exascale Precision Medicine

December 13, 2017 18:22 - 9 minutes - 8.32 MB

Rick Stevens discusses the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE), an ECP application development project targeting new computational methods for cancer treatment with precision medicine. Edited Transcript: https://www.exascaleproject.org/lighting-way-exascale-precision-medicine/