Principal Investigator Kord Smith
As DOE’s Office of Science pushes the frontiers of advanced computing to the Exascale (1018 FLOPS), significant challenges are being encounter in the design and utilization of these massively-parallel machines - which will have hundreds of millions or billions of compute cores. DOE is sponsoring three interdisciplinary “co-design centers” that are tasked with simultaneously designing hardware and software for deployment on machines in 2019. The group is an integral part of one center, CESAR, the ANL-led Center for Exascale Simulation of Advanced Reactors, working together with industrial partner IBM. Fundamental research on basic reactor modeling methods, massively-parallel algorithms, software architecture, and computer hardware design are underway. CESAR provides unique opportunities for students to be involved in large interdisciplinary HPC projects, and students will be exploring parallel communication bottlenecks, developing new algorithmic approaches, and testing large-scale GPGPU utilizations.