{"573601":{"#nid":"573601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Newly Funded Project Sets Stage for Next Generation of Supercomputers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is leading a $2.4 million project to develop new computer algorithms for solving linear and nonlinear equations that will ultimately help pave the way for the next generation of supercomputers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/people\/6852\/edmond-chows\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAssociate Professor Edmond Chow\u003C\/a\u003E leads the project, funded by the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE). The project is a collaboration between Georgia Tech, Sandia National Laboratories, Temple University, and the University of Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research targets a critical need for more advanced algorithms in the transition from petascale to exascale computing, which could unlock a thousand-fold increase in computer performance. Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of at least a billion billion (quintillion) \u2013 or one exaflop \u2013 floating-point operations per second.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChow and his team plan to replace the current generation of solvers\u0026shy; \u2013 mathematical tools used to determine solutions to particular problems \u2013 that are being impeded by \u201csynchronous operations.\u201d Occurring at the same time, these operations create a bottleneck due to the sequence in which processors must perform their calculations. The proposed approaches offer \u201casynchronous\u201d techniques that allow each processor to operate independently, proceeding with the most recently available data, rather than waiting to sync with the remaining processors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMore than just building bigger and faster computers, high-performance computing is about how to build the algorithms and applications that run on these computers,\u201d said Chow. \u201cWe\u0027ve brought together the top people in the U.S. with expertise in asynchronous techniques as well as experience needed to develop, test, and deploy this research in scientific and engineering applications.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three-year project is part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.energy.gov\/ascr\/ascac\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EU.S. government\u2019s initiative\u003C\/a\u003E to build an exascale supercomputer by 2023. This research could have an impact on a large variety of applications, including large-scale materials science, climate research, and combustion simulations. Additionally, the research could fundamentally shift current understanding of what can be achieved through parallel computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E is a diverse, interdisciplinary innovation ecosystem composed of award-winning faculty, researchers, and students. CSE research spans many areas including high performance computing, machine learning, data science and engineering\u0026nbsp;techniques, data visualization, and cybersecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The School of Computational Science and Engineering will lead a U. S. 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