Exascale Workshop

The ASC Exascale Workshop, "From Petascale to Exascale: R&D Challenges for HPC Simulation Environments," was held in San Francisco at The Sir Francis Drake Hotel from March 22–24, 2011. The workshop was sponsored by Robert Meisner and Thuc Hoang, Advanced Simulation and Computing, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. Attendees included representatives of HPC programs from U.S. government agencies, national laboratories, industry, and universities. The purpose of the workshop was to begin a dialogue with the external community on DOE high performance computing (HPC) research and development challenges as the DOE NNSA and Office of Science partnership moves beyond petascale to new exascale models of computing.

Agenda

March 22–23: ASC Exascale Working Group Meeting (Private)

Monday, March 21
6:00–8:00 p.m. Registration and reception (Empire Room)
Working Groups will meet in the mezzanine area of The Sir Francis Drake Hotel for registration and networking
   
Tuesday, March 22
7:30–8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast (Empire Room)
8:30–8:35 Welcome
   Thuc Hoang, NNSA
8:35–9:00 NNSA Commitment to State-of-the-Art Modeling and Computation
   Bob Meisner, NNSA ASC Program Director
9:00–9:30 DOE Office of Science and Exascale
   Barbara Helland, Senior Advisor for DOE/SC ASCR Program
9:30–9:45

Charge to Working Groups
   Thuc Hoang, NNSA

9:45–10:00 Break
10:00–12:00 Working Group meetings (rooms to be announced)
12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch break (on your own)
1:30–3:00 Breakout session I
   Applications : Solvers, Algorithms, and Libraries (Empire Room)
   Programming Models : System Software (Cypress Room)
   Hardware Architecture : Visualization and Data Analysis
    (Monterey Room)
   Tools : I/O, Networking, and Storage (Chart Room)
3:00–3:30 Break
3:30–5:00 Breakout session II
   Applications : Programming Models (Empire Room)
   Solvers, Algorithms, and Libraries : Hardware Architecture
    (Monterey Room)
   Tools : System Software (Cypress Room)
   Visualization and Data Analysis : I/O, Networking, and Storage
    (Chart Room)
 
Wednesday, March 23
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast (Empire Room)
8:30–10:00

Breakout session III
   Applications : Tools (Empire Room)
   Solvers, Algorithms, and Libraries : Programming Models
    (Cypress Room)
   System Software : Visualization and Data Analysis
    (Monterey Room)
   Hardware Architecture : I/O, Networking, and Storage
    (Chart Room)

10:00–12:00 Working Group slide preparation
12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch break (on your own)

 

March 23–24: Community Exascale Workshop

Wednesday, March 23 (Empire Room)
1:00–1:30 p.m. Registration and badging
1:30–1:40 Welcome Remarks
   Bob Meisner, NNSA ASC Program Director
1:40–2:00 The Path to Exascale and the Broader Energy Context
   Kathleen Alexander, LANL at DOE Office of the
   Undersecretary for Science
2:00–2:30 Exascale Challenges: Applications, Technologies, and Co-Design
   Andy White, LANL
2:30–3:30 Outbriefing
   Application Working Group
   Hardware Architecture Working Group
3:30–4:00 Break
4:30–5:00 Outbriefing
   Solvers, Algorithms, and Libraries Working Group
   Programming Models Working Group
5:00 Adjourn
 
Thursday, March 24 (Empire Room)
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30–10:30 Outbriefing
   System Software Working Group
   Tools Working Group
   I/O, Networking, and Storage Working Group
   Visualization and Data Analysis Working Group
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Q&A and feedback
12:00 Adjourn

Working Groups and White Papers

Workshop Presentations