Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing
The Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing focuses on software challenges found in complex high-performance computers. The Joint Laboratory is based in Illinois and includes researchers from the French national computer science institute called INRIA, Illinois' Center for Extreme-Scale Computation, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Much of the Joint Laboratory's work will focus on algorithms and software that will run on Blue Waters and other petascale computers. Early focus areas will include:
- Modeling and optimizing numerical libraries, which are at the heart of many scientific applications.
- Fault-tolerance research, which reduces the negative impact when processors, disk drives, or memory fail in supercomputers that have tens or hundreds of thousands of those components.
- Novel programming models, which allow scientific applications to be updated or reimagined to take full advantage of extreme-scale supercomputers.