{"584773":{"#nid":"584773","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Faculty Members Help Usher in Exascale Era of Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo faculty members from the Georgia Institute of Technology \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E are contributing to two exascale projects receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/exascaleproject.org\/2016\/11\/10\/ecp-awards-34m-for-software-development\/\u0022\u003EExascale Computing Project (ECP).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three-year, multi- institution projects will receive just over $6.5 million in total funding to be distributed among each organization involved. Supported by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/ada-gavrilovska\u0022\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E and Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/experts\/greg-eisenhauer\u0022\u003EGreg Eisenhauer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, the projects deal with specific components of software stack development for exascale systems. Collectively, these software projects are the first steps to developing parallel applications that can target distinct exascale architectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGavrilovska supports \u0026ldquo;A Simplified Complex Memory API and Operating System\/Runtime Interface for ECP.\u0026rdquo; The project addresses the arbitrary process of programming for multiple memory technologies, such as MCDRAM, PCI-E NVM, SATA NVM, 3D stacked memory, PCM, Memristor, and 3D XPoint. The research team plans to devise a unified two-tier, unit-level Application Program Interface (API) for developers. This new memory API will offer scalable control over each memory type, providing an urgently needed tool for the supercomputing community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second project, \u0026ldquo;The ADIOS Framework for Scientific Date on Exascale Systems,\u0026rdquo; tackles another pressing challenge. Exascale systems are expected to increase computational speed beyond what current input\/output (I\/O) bandwidth can handle. This creates a time-sensitive need to optimize reading and writing speeds for exascale systems. Eisenhauer\u0026rsquo;s team aims to satisfy this need by transforming the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s ADIOS program to maximize I\/O bandwidth and efficiently use exascale hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A significant part of the promise of exascale computing systems lies in the delivery of large-scale simulations and other computations that uses the performance potential of these next-generation machines,\u0026rdquo; Eisenhauer said. \u0026ldquo;That can\u0026rsquo;t happen without the software and system-level infrastructure that is being developed in this program.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese two software development projects highlight a significant push by the College of Computing to be a vital contributor to the nation\u0026rsquo;s exascale ambitions. This push includes recent contributions from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE) in related supercomputing projects, such as CSE Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s involvement with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/557541\/georgia-tech-professor-helps-set-white-houses-hpc-agenda\u0022\u003ENational Strategic Computing Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E and CSE Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/573601\/newly-funded-project-sets-stage-next-generation-supercomputers\u0022\u003E$2.4 million DOE grant\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn all, 35 software development proposals have received a total of $34 million in grants. Each project confronts a critical research topic in the transition to exascale computing. The awards presented to these projects are a part of the U.S. government\u0026rsquo;s initiative to build an exascale supercomputer within the decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"College of Computing Faculty Members Aid Two Project Receiving Exascale Computing Funding."}],"uid":"30267","created_gmt":"2016-12-07 16:30:40","changed_gmt":"2016-12-09 15:14:58","author":"Devin Young","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50621":{"id":"50621","type":"image","title":"Ada Gavrilovska","body":null,"created":"1449175408","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:28","changed":"1475894463","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:03","alt":"Ada Gavrilovska","file":{"fid":"128760","name":"ada-gavrilovska.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ada-gavrilovska_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ada-gavrilovska_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13335,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ada-gavrilovska_1.jpg?itok=RiJCpsth"}},"50646":{"id":"50646","type":"image","title":"Greg Eisenhauer","body":null,"created":"1449175421","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:41","changed":"1475894466","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:06","alt":"Greg Eisenhauer","file":{"fid":"128781","name":"greg-eisenhauer.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/greg-eisenhauer_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/greg-eisenhauer_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12785,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/greg-eisenhauer_1.jpg?itok=IuR8TMgX"}}},"media_ids":["50621","50646"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172914","name":"Exascale Computing"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"4305","name":"cse"},{"id":"166940","name":"SCS"},{"id":"172915","name":"Ada Gavrilovska"},{"id":"112541","name":"greg eisenhauer"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:devin.young@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDevin M. 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