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1 Versions of the Roadmap

1.1 Current Version of the IESP Roadmap

IESP Roadmap

Citation:
"The International Exascale Software Roadmap," Dongarra, J., Beckman, P. et al., Volume 25, Number 1, 2011, International Journal of High Performance Computer Applications, ISSN 1094-3420.

1.2 Previous Versions of the IESP Roadmap

2 Products of Recent Meetings

2.1 Products of the Cologne Meeting

2.2 Products of the San Francisco Meeting

Summary report of the San Francisco workshop results.
Exascale Software Center Co-Design Code Team Survey (aka "Application Inventory"). A survey instrument developed by the DOE's Exascale Software Center to collect information pertinent to the co-design process from DOE Co-design Centers and other science groups developing extreme scale applications.
Survey of System Software Stacks in the IESP Community, Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Bernd has also provided an updated version of the slides he presented at the meeting, which summarize and discuss the results of the survey.
Blue Waters NDA Process, Kjellrun Olson, Blue Waters Project Manager

3 Most Recent: Meeting 8 (Kobe, Japan, April 12-13, 2012)

Documents from previous meetings are below the material from the current meeting and in chronological order

3.1 Day 1: Morning Plenary Presentations

Welcome to Japan's Advanced Institute for Computational Science: Kimihiko Hirao, Director of Riken AICS
IESP Goals and Overview, Jack Dongarra (U.of Tennessee) and Pete Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory).
Japan's Policy on High Peformance Computing, Takahiro Hayashi, Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science & Technology in Japan
HPC activities in Japan
- Japanese Post-Peta Planning and Feasibility Research:Yutaka Ishikawa (U. of Tokyo)
- Report on Exascale Architecture Roadmap in Japan, Masaaki Kondo (U. of Electro-Comm.)
- Report on Exascale Software Roadmap, Naoya Maruyama (TITECH)
- [[Media:|Summary of discussion of applications working group]]:Hirofumi Tomita(RIKEN AICS)
HPC Activities in China
- Update to China Activities in HPC, Zhong Jin, (Supercomputing Center, CNIC, CAS)
- Update on HPC Efforts in NUDT, Yutong Lu (National university of Defense Technology, China)
Asia HPC Overview – Exascale Perspective IESP, David Kahaner (Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP))

3.2 Day 1: Afternoon Plenary Presentations

DOE Activities, William Harrod
HPC/Exascale state of play, Leonardo Flores Anover (European Commission)
European Exascale Software Initiative From EESI to EESI2, Jean-Yves Berthou(ANR) and Philippe Ricoux(Total)

3.3 Day 1: Afternoon Breakouts

Application Breakout
Revolutionary Approaches Breakout
- Introduction to "Revolutionary Approaches" Breakout, Thomas Sterling (Indiana University)
- Breakout 3, Initial Discussions
Software Infrastructure Breakout

3.4 Day 2: Morning Plenary Presentations

On Data Intensive Computing and Exascale, Alok Choudhary (Northwestern)
Square Kilometer Array, Tim Cornwell (CSIRO, SKA Science Data Processor Consortium)
G8 Exascale Projects Summary, William Tang (Princeton/PPPL) and Jean-Yves Berthou(ANR)

3.5 Day 2: Reports from afternoon breakouts

Application Breakout, David Keyes (KAUST)
Revolutionary Approaches Breakout, William Gropp (University of Illinois) and Thomas Sterling (Indiana University)
Software Infrastructure Breakout, Franck Cappello (INRIA and UIUC), Rajeev Thakur (ANL)

3.6 Documents of interest flowing from this meeting

4 Presentations at the IESP exploratory meeting SC08, Austin, TX, 18Nov08

Jack Dongarra and Pete Beckman, who organized this initial discussion of the challenges and potential of the IESP, began the conversation with a short presentation.

5 Meeting 1 (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Agenda

5.1 Presentations

5.1.1 Summaries from the meeting breakout groups

Summary of Breakout Group 1: Developing a technical roadmap for peta/exascale software infrastructure.
Summary of Breakout Group 2: Organization and funding models for international collaboration to develop peta/exascale software infrastructure.

5.1.2 Plenary Presentations

Improving HPC Software: Welcome, Pete Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago) and Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
e-Infrastructure in FP7: HPC related aspects, Catherine Riviére, GENCI, France
Development of an Over Petascale Computer in Japan,Satoshi Matsuoka, GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology/National Institute of Informatics
International Exascale Software Program, Abani Patra, NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
Improving HPC Software: Overview, Pete Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago) and Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Thou Shalt Specialize or Commoditize? The Japanese Situation Towards Peta and Exascale, Satoshi Matsuoka, GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology/National Institute of Informatics
Technology and Architectures for Future Large‐Scale Computing Systems, Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago.
Computational Science and HPC Software-Development in Europe, Thomas Lippert and Bernd Mohr, Forschungszentrum Jülich, JSC and Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V.
Slides from the panel:Software Barriers to HPC, Today and Tomorrow. Panel participants:Al Gara, Jean-Yves Berthou, Mitsuhisa Sato, Peggy Williams, Vivek Sarkar, Ann Trefethen
Science Drivers, Current HPC Software Development, and Platform Deployment Plans for the USA, Horst Simon,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley

5.2 Whitepapers

Musings on the Path Toward Exascale, Robert Lucas - ISI/USC
BSC Vision Towards Exascale, Mateo Valero, BSC
Software Challenges of Extreme Scale Computing, Michael Heroux - Sandia National Laboratory
Software and Exascale Computing, Bill Camp - Intel Corporation
Application Analysis and Porting in the PRACE Project, Peter Michielse - Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF)
The Application Perspective - Seeking Productivity and Performance, David Barkai - Intel Corporation
XXL Simulation for XXI st Century Power Systems Operation, J.Y. Berthou, J.F. Hamelin and Etienne de Rocquigny - EDF R&D
The Biggest Need: A New Model of Computation, Thomas Sterling - Louisiana State University
NSF IESP Whitepaper, Abani Patra, Rob Pennington, Ed Seidel - Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
A Proposal for a Capability Centers Consortium, Bill Gropp, Mark Snir - NCSA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Slouching Towards Exascale, Rusty Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory
A Collaboration and Commercialization Model for Eascale Software Research, Mark Seager and Brent Gorda, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Case for A Hierarchal System Model for Linux Clusters, Mark Seager and Brent Gorda, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
IESP  Whitepaper:  PDE-based  applications  and  solvers  at  extreme  scale, David Keyes , Columbia  University  &  SciDAC  TOPS  project
Developing a high performance computing/numerical analysis roadmap, Ann Trefethen, Nick Higham, Ian Duff, and Peter Coveney

6 Meeting 2 (Paris, France)

6.1 Full Workshop Report

Summary Report:IESP Workshop 2, Paris, France

6.2 Presentations

6.2.1 Plenary Presentations

Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif, Catherine Riviere (GENCI)
Improving HPC Software, Jack Dongarra (UTK/ORNL)
Results from Santa Fe, Pete Beckman (ANL/U. Chicago)
Objectives and Organization of the European IESP workshop, Franck Capello (INRIA), Christian Saguez (TeraTec)
Lessons and feedback of the Santa Fe Meeting, Jean-Yves Berthou (INRIA)
Synthesis of the IESP Santa Fe Whitepapers, Bernd Mohr (JSC), Thomas Lippert (JSC), Jesus Labarta,(BSC)
Workshop Series on Science Grand Challenges Enabled by Extreme Scale Computing, Paul Messina (ANL)

6.2.2 Summaries from meeting breakout groups - Day 1

6.2.3 Summaries from meeting breakout groups - Day 2

Programming Models at Exascale, with a focus on problems within a socket (Breakout group 1A)
Software working group slides, complete. This set of slides,compiled by Mike Heroux, contains the cumulative output of both software infrastructure subgroups for both days.
Computational Challenges and Needs for Academic and Industrial Applications Communities (Breakout group 2) This group also put together a list of application experts from different research domains who we can consult with as the planning process moves forward.
Economic and management challenges and needs of computational resource providers and industry partners (Breakout group 3)
Role and Participation of national and international funding agencies (Breakout group 4)

6.2.4 Wrap-up Workshop 2/Preparation for Workshop 3

Next Steps and Research Agenda, Paul Messina and Anne Trefethen

6.3 Whitepapers and notes on crosscutting issues for Paris Meeting

Programming Models at Exascale: adaptive runtime systems, incomplete simple languages, and interoperability, Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)
On the Importance of End-to-end Application Performance Monitoring and Workload Analysis at the Exascale, David Skinner (LBNL) and Alok Choudary (Northwestern University)
Towards exascale distributed data management, Giovanni Aloisio (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change-CMCC)
Towards Exascale Resilience, Franck Cappello (INRIA), Al Geist (ORNL), Bill Gropp (UIUC), Sanjay Kale (UIUC), Bill Kramer (UIUC), Marc Snir (UIUC)
Early application development/tuning and application characterization/segmentation, Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)
An Exascale Approach to Software and Hardware Design, William Kramer(NCSA) and David Skinner(LBNL)
Consistent Application Performance at Exascale, William Kramer(NCSA) and David Skinner(LBNL)
Performance at Exascale, Bernd Mohr (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) and Matthias S. Mueller (Wolfgang E. Nagel Center for Information Services and HPC)
Resource Management, Barney McCabe (ORNL) and Hugo Falter (ParTec)
Programmability Issues, Vivek Sarkar (Rice U.), Jesus Labarta (UPC), Mitsuhisa Sato (U. of Tsukuba), Barbara Chapman (U. of Houston)
Models of Computation – Enabling Exascale, Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University.
Major Computer Science Challenges at Exascale, Al Geist (ORNL) and Robert Lucas (ISI)
Towards Exascale File I/0, Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo
Co-design of Architectures and Algorithms, Al Geist (ORNL) and Sudip Dosanjh (SNL)
IESP Exascale Challenge: Resilience and Fault Tolerance, Al Geist (ORNL) and Franck Cappello (INRIA)

7 Meeting 3 (Tsukuba, Japan)

7.1 Starting documents for meeting, including initial Roadmap "strawman"

Attendees to the workshop were asked to download and review the following documents:

Initial strawman of the IESP Roadmap
Roadmap template, which was used help guide participants working on different software component areas.
Targets and milestones for the different software component areas used this Milestone template (doc)

7.2 Presentations

7.2.1 Day 1

IESP Workshop: Asia Round, Taisuke Boku
Government of Japan's Approach to High Performance Computing, Yuichi Inoue
Goals for the IESP, Rick Stevens
Main Results of the Previous Meetings and Overview of Whitepapers, Bernd Mohr.
Objectives and organization of the meeting--The Software Roadmap, Satoshi Matsuoka
Building the IESP Roadmap, Pete Beckman.

7.2.2 Reports from the software breakout groups (Day 2)

Algorithms -- Lead: Bill Gropp
Debugging -- Lead: David Skinner
Frameworks -- Lead: Mike Herioux
I/0, storage and data managmement -- Lead: Alok Choudrey
Libraries -- Lead: Jack Dongarra
Programming Models and Compilers -- Lead: Barbara Chapman
Operating Systems -- Lead: Barney Maccabe
Performance -- Lead: Bernd Mohr
Power Efficiency -- Lead: John Shalf
Programmability -- Lead: Thomas Sterling
Resilience -- Lead: Franck Capello
Runtime Systems -- Lead: Jesus Labarta
Systems Management and Security -- Lead: Bob Wisnieswski

7.2.3 Reports from application breakout group (Day 2)

Computational Challenges and Needs for Academic and Industrial Application Communities-- Leads: Jean-Claude Andre and Jean-Yves Berthou
Pioneering Application: Priority Research Directions -- Leads: Bill Tang and Richard Kenway

7.3 Whitepapers

Climate Change Research at Exascale, Giovanni Aloisio (University of Salento, Italy), Italo Epicoco (University of Salento, Italy), Silvia Mocavero (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change – CMCC, Italy) and Mark Taylor (Sandia National Laboratory, USA)
IESP Challenges: Application Development, Translation and Execution Environments, Barbara Chapman (Univ. of Houston), Richard Graham (ORNL), Barney Maccabe (ORNL), Oscar Hernandez(Univ. of Houston), Bernd Mohr(JSC), Wolfgang E. Nagel(TUD-ZIH)
Operating Systems for Exascale, John Shalf (LBNL) and Thomas Sterling (Louisiana State Univ.)

8 Meeting 4 (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Logistics for the Oxford meeting
Draft meeting agenda
Background documents
- Current version of the IESP Roadmap

8.1 Presentations

9 Meeting 5 (Maui,Hawaii,USA, October 18-19, 2010)

Documents from previous meetings are below the slides from the current meeting chronological order

9.1 Day 1: Morning Plenary Presentations

Department of Energy's Exascale Efforts, Barbara Helland (DOE Office of Science ASCR)
The Exascale Software Center Planning Team, Pete Beckman (ANL)
The Dawn of the Japanes "Post Petascale" Era, Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Yutaka Ishikawa (University of Tokyo)
The Development of HPC in China, Xue-bin Chi (Supercomputing Center, CNIC, CAS)
European Initiatives, EC vision and funding, Jean-Yves Berthou (INRIA)
European Commission Seventh Framework Program Announcement, Patrick Aerts (NWO)
PRACE: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, Lennart Johnsson (Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden/University of Houston)
Square Kilometer Array as a Co-Design Vehicle, Tim Cornwell (CSIRO, Australia)

9.2 Day 1: Afternoon Plenary Presentations

9.2.1 Vendor Perspectives on Exascale and Co-Design

Exascale Computing, Peg Williams (Cray)
Fujitsu's Activities in Capability Computing, Ross Nobes (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe)
IBM Exascale Software Initiatives, Robert Wisniewski (IBM)
The Exceptional Challenges of Exascale Computing, David Lombard (Intel)
Exascale Challenges, Dan Reed (Microsoft)
HP and Exascale, Rob Schreiber (HP)
Exascale Questions, Jean-Francois Lavignon (Bull)

9.3 Day 2: Breakout results

9.4 White Papers

Square Kilometer Array(SKA) Exascale Software Challenges, Tim Cornwell (ATNF/CASS), Ben Humphreys (ATNF/CASS)
Supercomputing Educations: The Third Pillar of HPC, Voevodin Vladimir (Moscow State University, Russia), Gergel Victor (Nizhni Novgorod State University, Russia)

10 Meeting 6 (San Francisco, CA,USA, April 6-7, 2011)

10.1 Day 1: Morning Plenary Presentations

IESP Meetings Summarized, Peter Michielse - NCF/NWO
System Software Stacks Survey , Bernd Mohr, Julich - JSC. The data that Bernd collected construct this talk in one spreadsheet.
Exa-scale computing, software and simulation: Objective in FP7 ICT Call 7, Leonardo Da Flores
European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI)
- EESI Introduction, Jean-Yves Berthou - EDF
- Application Grand Challenges and Enabling Technologies for Exaflop Computing, Stéphane Requena (GENCI) and Bernd Mohr - JSC
- EESI System software, Franck Capello - INRIA/UIUC
- Applications for Energy & Transportation, Jean-Claude André - CERFACS
- Weather, Climatology and Earth Sciences, G. Aloisio - ENES - CMCC
- Fundamental Sciences: Physics and Chemistry, G. Sutmann - CECAM/JSC
- Life Sciences and Health, Ramon, Goni - BSC
- HPC R&D Cartography, Riccardo Brunino - CINECA

10.2 Day 1: Afternoon Plenary Presentations

DOE's Exascale Software Center (ESC) - All DOE ESC slides in one file and in order of presentation as follows:
- The Exascale Software Center- Preface: Pete Beckman - ANL
- Report on 5 Component Areas of the ESC Software Stack
  - Operating System and Runtime: Ron Brightwell - SNL
  - Programming Models: Barbara Chapman - Univ. of Houston and Rajeev Thakur - ANL
  - Tools: Bronis de Supinski - LLNL/CASC
  - Math Libraries and Frameworks: Jack Dongarra - Univ. of Tennessee
  - Data Storage and Analysis: Rob Ross - ANL
- Report on Application Inventory - Al Geist - ORNL
Update on Japanese HPC
- Reports on Japanese computing efforts, Mitsuhisa Sato - Univ. of Tsukuba
- High Performance Computing Infrastructure in Japan, Yutaka Ishikawa - Univ. of Tokyo
- Expected funding and plans beyond NGS, Satoshi Matsuoka - TiTech
Reports from G8 Awardees on Exascale Software for Applications
- ECS: Enabling Climate Simulation at Extreme Scale, Marc Snir - Univ. of Illinois
- G8 Exascale Software Applications: Fusion Energy, Bill Tang - Princeton Univ.
Report on Chinese Computing efforts
- Recent Advances of Chinese Efforts in HPC, Zhong Jin - CAS
- HPC System at NUDT, Lu Yutong - NUDT

10.3 Day 2: Morning Plenary Presentations

DOE Co-Design Centers
- Cesar: Center for Exascale Simulation of Advanced Reactors, Andrew Siegel - ANL, Nuclear Energy;
- The CERF Center: Co-Design for Exascale Research in Fusion, Alice Koniges - LBNL, Fusion
- Flash High-Energy Density Physics Co-Design Center, Anshu Dubey - Univ. Chicago
- Combustion Exascale Co-Design Center, Jackie Chen - SNL
Things to think about: Codesign and IP, Robert Wisniewski - IBM

10.4 Day 2: Reports from the morning breakouts

Hardware Breakout Group, Robert Wisniewski - IBM
Applications Breakout Group, Applications: David Keys - KAUST/Columbia Univ.
Software Breakout Group, Software: Pete Beckman - ANL

10.5 Dey 2: Reports from afternoon breakouts

Notes Group 1: Straw man outline and roadmap, presented by Bernd Mohr - JSC
IESP Breakout on Governance, presented by Jean-Yves Berthou - EDF
Findings of the IESP breakout group on X-stack cooperation in international perspective, presented by Patrick Aerts - NCF

11 Meeting 7 (Cologne, Germany, Oct. 7-8, 2011)

Documents from previous meetings are below the material from the current meeting and in chronological order

11.1 Day 1: Morning Plenary Presentations

Scalability Unltd?, Thomas Lippert - Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Update of Chinese HPC Efforts, Zhong Jin - Supercomputing Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Japan Update, Ryutaro Himeno - RIKEN
Exascale-related EC Activities, Leonardo Flores, European Commission - DG INFSO-F3
EESI WG4.1: Hardware roadmap, links and vendors, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
EESI WG4.2 Exascale Software Ecosystem, Franck Cappello - INRIA and UIUC
EESI WG4.3:Numerical Libraries, Solvers, and Algorithms, Iain Duff - STFC -RAL
EESI WG4.4: Scientific Software Engineering, Andrew Jones - NAG
EESI WG3.4: Life Sciences and Health, Ramon Goni - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

11.2 Day 1: Afternoon Plenary Presentations

Dynamic Exascale Entry Platform (DEEP), Norbert Eiker - Jülich Supercomputing Center
Mont Blanc:European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on low-power embedded technology, Alex Ramirez - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware, Tools and Applications (CRESTA), Mark Parsons - EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
Japan Update: SDHPC - Strategic Direction/Development of HPC, Yutaka Ishikawa - University of Tokyo
Update on US Exascale Activities, Paul Messina - Argonne National Laboratory
Need for Exascale Education and Training, Vladimir Voevodin - Research Computing Center, Moscow State University

11.3 Day 2: Morning Plenary Presentations

Investigation of Existing Exascale Initiatives, Mike Parsons - EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
WG 3.1 Industrial Applications, Jean-Claude André - exCERFACS
WG 3.2 Weather, Earth, and Climate, Giovanni Aloisio - CMCC & University of Salento
WG 3.3 Fundamental Sciences, Stephen Requena - GENCI
EESI: Vision and Recommendations, Jean-Yves Berthou - EDF R&D

11.4 Day 2: Reports from afternoon breakouts

Co-design Breakout, led by Sudip Dosanjh, SNL and Stephane Requena, GENCI
System Software Stack Breakout, led by Frank Cappello, INRIA/UIUC and Pete Beckman, ANL
Revolutionary Approaches Breakout, led by Thomas Sterling, IU and Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL

11.5 Recent Background Material

ESC Application Inventory Survey Form, Survey template used by the Exascale Software Center to formulate application requirements for the co-design process.
EESI Draft Report on International Activities, A draft report by the European Exascale Software Initiative on emerging efforts in extreme scale computing around the world. A good summary of the work of the IESP to date is included.

12 Relevant background material-2010

Exascale Workshop Panel Report, Report from the Meeting Held January 19-20, 2010, sponsored by Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Crosscutting Technologies for Computing at the Exascale Workshop, (Draft Report) DOE
On the Path to Exascale, Ken Alvin et. al., International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, 1(2), 1-22, April-June 2010.
Investigation Report on Existing HPC Initiatives, A report of the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI).
“The International Exascale Software Project: A Call to Cooperative Action by the Global High Performance Community,” Dongarra, J., Beckman, P., Aerts, P., Cappello, F., Lippert, T., Matsuoka, S., Messina, P., Moore, T., Stevens, R., Trefethen, A., Valero, M. Volume 23, Number 4, Winter 2009, International Journal of High Performance Computer Applications, pp 309-322, ISSN 1094-3420.
Exascale Workshop Panel Report, Report from the Meeting Held January 19-20, 2010, sponsored by Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Crosscutting Technologies for Computing at the Exascale Workshop, (Draft Report), sponsored by Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
On the Path to Exascale, Ken Alvin et. al., International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, 1(2), 1-22, April-June 2010.

13 IESP Birds-of-a-feather session, SC09, Portland, OR

IESP BoF, SC09:Introduction, Jack Dongara
Notes: Building the IESP Roadmap, Pete Beckman
IESP and Applications, Paul Messina
European Exascale Software Initiative, Jean-Yves Berthou

14 Combined Archive of Presentations and Whitepapers

A PDF file (109MB) containing the presentations and whitepapers from Meetings 1 and 2 is available to download. This archive is inclusive of all white papers as of 16June09. More items have since been contributed and will soon be added to the archive.

15 Relevant background material-2009

SC08 Workshop: Power Efficiency and the Path to Exascale Computing: A workshop organized by John Shalf (LBNL), Stephen Elbert (PNNL), and Thomas Sterling (LSU CCT), that provides an early look at the roadblocks to exascale computing and strategies for mitigating them.
Slides from SC09 Panel -- The Road to Exascale: Hardware and Software Challenges
- SC'09 Exascale Panel, Stephen Scott, CTO, Cray.
- Software at Exascale, Marc Snir, Univ. of Illinois.
- Energy at Exaflops, Peter Kogge, Univ. of Notre Dame.
- The Road to Exascale: Hardware and Software Challenge, Jack Dongarra, Univ. of Tennessee.
ExaScale Computing Software Study: Software Challenges in Extreme Scale Systems, a DARPA/IPTO Report (September 14, 2009)
International Assessment of Research in Simulation-Based Engineering and Science, a World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) panel report, sponsored by the NSF and other US Govt. Agencies. This is a large document (426 pgs., 6.1MB), but chapter 5 (Next Generation Architectures and Algorithms by George Em Karniadakis) and chapter 6 (Software Development by Martin Head-Gordon) are of obvious interest to the IESP.
Modeling and Simulation at the Exascale for Energy and the Environment: Report on the Advanced Scientific Computing Research Town Hall Meetings on Simulation and Modeling at the Exascale for Energy, Ecological Sustainability and Global Security (E3) (2008), Horst Simon(LBNL), Thomas Zacharia (ORNL), Rick Stevens (ANL). Sponsored by the DOE Office of Science.
ExaScale Computing Study: Technology Challenges in Achieving Exascale Systems] (DARPA/IPTO, 2008)
Technology and Architectures for Future Large-Scale Computing Systems – Rick Stevens. Presentation from the DOE workshop Forefront Questions in Nuclear Science and the Role of High Performance Computing, January 26-28, 2009 · Washington D.C.
Parallel Computing Research at Illinois The vision and research agenda of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Report from the Workshop on Software Development Tools for Petascale Computing
ICT Infrastructures for eScience, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions
High Performance Computing & Numerical Analysis Applications/Algorithms Roadmap Version 1.0, A. Trefethen, N. Higham, I. Duff, P.V. Coveney - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Center (EPSRC)
The slides available from the Sept. 2008 Workshop: Simulating the Future Using One Million Cores and Beyond are directly relevant to the goals and challenges of the IESP.
Overview for the IESP exploratory meeting, SC08, Austin Texas: To prepare for the early discussions about the need for and potential of the IESP, Pete Beckman and Jack Dongarra provided a two-page concept paper intended to motivate the discussion.
Fundamentals of Technology Roadmapping, Marie L. Garcia and Olin H. Bray, Sandia National Laboratory