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| News |
| Town Hall Meetings |
| E3 Initiative for the Exascale Future |
| Scientists and engineers from around the country have attended three town hall meetings hosted by DOE's Simulation and Modeling at the Exascale for Energy, Ecological Sustainability, and Global Security (E3) initiative. At these meetings, participants discussed the future research possibilities offered by exascale supercomputers capable of a million trillion calculations per second and more. Computer scientists will need to push the boundaries of computer architecture, software algorithms, and data management to make way for these revolutionary new systems. |
| The first town hall meeting was held in April at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). More than 270 participants were present at the second town hall meeting, held on May 17-18 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Thomas Zacharia, ORNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences, noted that current supercomputers like the Leadership Class Cray systems at ORNL have demonstrated significant scientific advances in chemistry, materials science, climate, combustion, astrophysics, and fusion. Participants focused on issues of global importance to ensure that such advances will continue. |
| From May 31-June 1 the final town hall meeting on Simulation E3 was held at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Dr. Kenneth Judd of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University spoke on "Potential Applications of Exascale Computing in Economics." With one of the objectives of the town hall meetings being identification of exciting new applications areas for future ultra-scale computing, Dr. Judd's discussion of computational economics as a discipline offering numerous opportunities (such as market design analysis) and numerous challenges (such as high-dimensional integration and high-dimensional functions) was an important event. |
| Further Reading |
http://www.er.doe.gov/ascr/Misc/Energy-ecology-security-initiative.pdf
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