As exascale becomes prevalent, these simulations will produce 10 to 100 times as much data.
Not exact matches
Reaching
exascale is expected to be far more difficult than simply wiring additional computer processors together (
as Science reported in this 2012 feature).
For the next fiscal year, the Administration today requested only $ 68 million in DOE funding for
exascale science, which includes everything from hardware development, novel mathematical methods, and scientific applications, such
as climate modeling software programs.
Even so, simply scaling up the current Sunway system to
exascale is impractical,
as the resulting machine would require on the order of 150 MW, enough to power thousands of homes.
The PPPL - led code was one of only three codes out of more than 30 science and engineering programs selected to participate in Early Science programs on all three new supercomputers, which will serve
as forerunners for even more powerful
exascale machines that are to begin operating in the United States in the early 2020s.
As collaborators in DOE's
Exascale Computing Project, Argonne scientists are helping to solve the challenges of developing
exascale computers.
Over a planned 10 - year span, the project aim is to conduct simulations and modeling on the most sophisticated HPC machines
as they become available, i.e., 100 - plus petaflop machines and eventually
exascale supercomputers.