Preparing applications for exascale through co-design
The need for exascale platforms is being driven by a set of important scientific drivers. These drivers are scientific challenges of global significance that cannot be solved on current petascale hardware, but require exascale systems. Example grand challenge problems originate from energy, climate, nanotechnology and medicine and have a strong societal focus. Meeting these challenges requires associated application codes to utilise developing exascale systems appropriately. Achieving this requires a close interaction between software and application developers. The concept of co-design dates from the late 18th century, and recognised the importance of a priori knowledge. In modern software terms, co-design recognises the need to include all relevant perspectives and stakeholders in the design process. With application, software and hardware developers now engaged in co-design to guide exascale development, a workshop bringing these communities together is timely.
Authors are invited to submit novel research and experience in all areas associated with co-design and we particularly welcome research that brings together current theory and practise. This half-day workshop seeks contributions in the form of abstracts on relevant topics, including, but not limited to co-design:
• From an application scientist perspective
• From a software engineers perspective
• In fusion science
• In QCD
• In weather prediction
• In computational fluid dynamics
• In molecular simulation
• And numerical algorithms
• And pre- and post- processing
• And programming models and libraries
• Best practise and innovation
A peer review process will be used to select abstracts. Successful authors will be invited to present their work at the workshop and to submit a paper for publication in the SC 2012 digital proceedings.
Abstract submissions should be no longer than 500 words in length and should be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than 16th September 2012.
