The Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, which supports DOE's
supercomputing efforts, would see its budget slip by 0.6 %, to $ 538 million — the first cut in a decade.
DOE, which heads U.S.
supercomputing efforts, has said it doesn't expect to build its first exascale supercomputer until 2023 at the earliest, a target that has already slipped several years.
Advanced scientific computing research, which includes the office's
supercomputing efforts, would see its budget soar 15 % to the $ 621 million requested.
Recently, several agencies have announced plans to integrate
their supercomputing efforts.
The absence of a coordinated federal
supercomputing effort had made it more difficult for agencies like the Department of Energy (DOE) to make their case with the Office of Management and Budget that they needed to boost supercomputing budgets, Simon says.
Not exact matches
A longer - term goal behind OpenCL is to create a common programming interface that will even let software writers create applications that run both GPUs and CPUs with few modifications, cutting the time and
effort required to harness
supercomputing power for scientific endeavors.
And Haohuan Fu, a supercomputer expert at Tsinghua University in Beijing, says the Chinese government is making a concerted
effort to support
supercomputing to propel advances in everything from life sciences research to manufacturing design for its companies.
Such large - scale modeling and simulation requires the heft of a supercomputer, and for this
effort the team used Blue Waters at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I.