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Title: Big Data: Next-Generation Machines for Big Science

Journal Article · · Computing in Science and Engineering
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2015.78· OSTI ID:1391982

Addressing the scientific grand challenges identified by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science’s programs alone demands a total leadership-class computing capability of 150 to 400 Pflops by the end of this decade. The successors to three of the DOE’s most powerful leadership-class machines are set to arrive in 2017 and 2018—the products of the Collaboration Oak Ridge Argonne Livermore (CORAL) initiative, a national laboratory–industry design/build approach to engineering nextgeneration petascale computers for grand challenge science. These mission-critical machines will enable discoveries in key scientific fields such as energy, biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science, and high-performance computing, and serve as a milestone on the path to deploying exascale computing capabilities.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Argonne National Laboratory - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1391982
Journal Information:
Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 17, Issue 4; ISSN 1521-9615
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English