Request for Input on the Science Drivers Requiring Capable Exascale High-Performance Computing

Dear NIF/SciCrunch Community,

The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are seeking your input to identify scientific research that would benefit from a greatly enhanced new generation of HPC computing technologies and architectures. Please see below for a message from Susan Gregurick, the Director of the Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for further details.

 

Dear Colleagues,

I am reaching out to ask your help in defining scientific drivers that would require exascale High Performance Computing (HPC). You may know that on July 29, 2015, the White House issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative as a government-wide effort to create a coordinated, cohesive, multi-agency strategy to maximize the benefits of HPC for the United States. In support of this initiative, the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are seeking your input to identify scientific research that would benefit from a greatly enhanced new generation of HPC computing technologies and architectures. The request for information (RFI) (NOT-GM-15-122) asks for responses in scientific domains including the biomedical and physical sciences, mathematics, geosciences, energy sciences and engineering research.

We hope to hear from our research communities on topics that include:

· Research challenges that would need the projected 100-fold increase in application performance.

· Specific barriers in current HPC systems that limit scientific research.

· Capabilities needed for the data-intensive sciences.

· Additional barriers in such areas as training, workforce development or collaborative environments.

While this RFI invites comments on several specific topics, we would also welcome any comments that you feel are relevant to this initiative.

To respond to this RFI, send an email to NIGMS_exascale@nigms.nih.gov by October 16.