Plus no mention of MPI.  I wonder if that is an oversight or if we should ditch 
MPI as well...

Todd.


> On May 7, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>   PETSc developers,
> 
>     Note that this machine will apparently not support either of our two 
> current GPU backends: CUDA or ViennaCL/OpenCL ;-)
> 
>   Barry
> 
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Jed Brown <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: [ECP-PIs] Updates on the planned Aurora and Frontier 
>> exascale systems
>> Date: May 7, 2019 at 10:12:39 AM CDT
>> To: "Smith, Barry F." <[email protected]>, Ron Rahaman 
>> <[email protected]>, "Schanen, Michel" <[email protected]>, "Zhang, Hong" 
>> <[email protected]>, "Zhang, Junchao" <[email protected]>, "Marin, Oana" 
>> <[email protected]>, "Balay, Satish" <[email protected]>, Karl Rupp 
>> <[email protected]>, "Maldonado, Daniel Adrian" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Matthew Knepley <[email protected]>, Mark Adams <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Yes, also recommending OpenACC transition to OpenMP and showing
>> confidence in HIP over CUDA.
>> 
>> Spec sheet on the current generation of these GPUs.
>> 
>>  
>> https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/radeon-instinct-mi60-datasheet.pdf
>> 
>> Are they available in any cloud environments and/or is JLSE planning to get 
>> some?
>> 
>> "Smith, Barry F." <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>>  First news I've seen on Frontier. It is not Nvidia!
>>> 
>>>  No mention of OpenCL!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> From: ecp-pis--- via Ecp-pis 
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: [ECP-PIs] Updates on the planned Aurora and Frontier exascale 
>>> systems
>>> Date: May 7, 2019 at 8:29:02 AM CDT
>>> To: ECP Executive Leadership Team 
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
>>> "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Cc: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
>>> "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Reply-To: 
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> 
>>> Folks - we’ll discuss this more during our next all-PI VTC, but FYI details 
>>> of the Aurora and Frontier systems are becoming available, which is timely 
>>> and will help us in honing our exascale plans moving into our CD-2 review 
>>> this fall.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  *   Aurora: https://aurora.alcf.anl.gov/
>>>  *   Frontier: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/ (see also the attached 
>>> spec sheet)
>>> 
>>> Doug
>>> 
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