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10X Science: Charting The Course For U.S. Academic Supercomputing
Published Dec. 8, 2020
In 2019 the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was formally invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a plan for a Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) — a center for cyberinfrastructure, including hardware, software, storage, people, and programs. The facility would begin operations around 2025 and support academic researchers in the U.S. on a decadal scale.
A key priority of the LCCF is to deploy a system 10 times more capable than Frontera, the country's largest academic supercomputer, currently housed at TACC.
Dr. Omar Ghattas of the Oden Institute is a key partner in realizing the LCCF, bringing HPC to the exascale, and determining how best to utilize this colossal supercomputing power.
Earlier this year, Ghattas and Dr. George Biros from the Oden Institute co-hosted a workshop with TACC in conjunction with the NSF that brought together leaders from 24 U.S. research groups at the forefront of HPC. The aim was to map out key priorities for the next ten years of HPC research and innovation.
A report based on this meeting of minds is now available. "Future Directions in Extreme Scale Computing for Scientific Grand Challenges" was cowritten by Drs. Omar Ghattas (Oden Institute), George Biros (Oden Institute), Dan Stanzione (TACC), Rick Stevens (Argonne National Laboratory), and John West (TACC).
The authors identify a number of scientific grand challenge problems that will drive HPC in the coming years. Details on the LCCF can be found here.
A summary of the report's key findings is also available here.