The government has a $465.59 million proposal for FY 2014 in their hands to fund the DOE’s Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, which will help spearhead U.S exascale efforts. While the scientific payload of exascale was an important topic, the real meat, particularly when the floor was opened for questions, was how exascale will fit into larger national security goals, including nuclear stockpile stewardship-a rather familiar subject in the context of historical HPC funding. The hearing’s purpose was to examine draft legislation as it relates to the Department of Energy’s goals to build an exascale system. Dan Reed, VP of Research and Economic Development at the University of Iowa, all weighed in on various, expected components of exascale’s future (architecture, power/cooling, memory, etc.) before ringing the urgency alarm. Rick Stevens, Associate Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences at Argonne Dona Crawford, Associate Director for Computation at Lawrence Livermore and Dr. Roscoe Giles, Chairman of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee Dr. Instead of pitching the “big science” projects that lack a direct call to action, the threat of enroaching dominance from China and others, internal security, continued economic viability, and even the ability to predict tornado paths (a top news item during yesterday’s hearings following a devastating F5 in Oklahoma) took center stage, pushing exascale into the light of a requirement versus another expensive scientific endeavor.ĭr. nuclear capabilities-a note that has been resonating in headlines lately. While exascale funding hearings are nothing new, yesterday’s appeal struck a different chord, harmonizing with the urgency of ensuring U.S. Subcommittee on Energy, all of these national commodities are at stake without sustained investment in exascale systems. However, in this time of tight budgets and heightened national security, federal coffers tend to have looser locks when there is a threat situation-whether that is global competitiveness or the safety and security of the nation.Īccording to a group of leading voices in high performance computing who gathered before yesterday’s U.S. government tends to have an open ear for new ideas. When it comes to investment in scientific research, the U.S. Since 1987 - Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them
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