Yeah I read the extended abstract for that project. It is completely unclear to me what they will do.
Barry > On Sep 26, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Richard Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Barry, > > I'm pretty late responding to the thread, but in early 2015 I attended one of > the initial DOE workshops where they were discussing a wind power modeling > initiative. I recall that Jed also attended--perhaps he can comment further. > There was a lot of talk about very ambitious multi-scale modeling of wind > farms (ranging from detailed modeling of turbine blades all the way up to > modeling entire wind farms, perhaps coupling with regional weather/climate > models), as well as a lot of talk about optimization for wind farm design, > site selection, etc. The workshop was at the "throw all of your ideas out > there" phase, so I'm sure that things were eventually reduced in scope quite > a bit, but there are probably several possible applications for PETSc and TAO > in whatever ended up going into the Steve Hammond exascale application > proposal. > > --Richard > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > The list of exascale applications funded has been publicly released: > http://insidehpc.com/2016/09/the-exascale-computing-project-ecp-announces-39-8-million-in-first-round-application-development-awards/ > > I've pasted the ones below that "may" need or utilize capabilities > provided by PETSc: > > • Exascale Modeling of Advanced Particle Accelerators, Jean-Luc Vay > (LBNL) with LLNL, SLAC > • An Exascale Subsurface Simulator of Coupled Flow, Transport, > Reactions and Mechanics, Carl Steefel (LBNL) with LLNL, NETL > • Exascale Predictive Wind Plant Flow Physics Modeling, Steve Hammond > (NREL) with SNL, ORNL, University of Texas Austin > • QMCPACK: A Framework for Predictive and Systematically Improvable > Quantum‐Mechanics Based Simulations of Materials, Paul Kent (ORNL) with ANL, > LLNL, SNL, Stone Ridge Technology, Intel, Nvidia > • Coupled Monte Carlo Neutronics and Fluid Flow Simulation of Small > Modular Reactors, Thomas Evans (ORNL, PI) with ANL, INL, MIT > • Transforming Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation > (TrAMEx), John Turner (ORNL) with LLNL, LANL, NIST > • NWChemEx: Tackling Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Challenges > in the Exascale Era, T. H. Dunning, Jr. (PNNL), with Ames, ANL, BNL, LBNL, > ORNL, PNNL, Virginia Tech > • High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion > Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, > University of Colorado > • Data Analytics at the Exascale for Free Electron Lasers, Amedeo > Perazzo (SLAC) with LANL, LBNL, Stanford > • Transforming Combustion Science and Technology with Exascale > Simulations, Jackie Chen (SNL) with LBNL, NREL, ORNL, University of > Connecticut > • Cloud-Resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth’s Water Cycle, Mark > Taylor (SNL) with ANL, LANL, LLNL, ORNL, PNNL, UCI, CSU > > Based on the names alone it is hard to say for some of them. If anyone has > useful information on the needs/approaches of these projects please let us > know so we can determine if there any place for PETSc. > > Thanks > > Barry > > >
