Breakthrough
computer software that will be used to power the world's fastest
supercomputers of the future allowing us to model and simulate
incredibly complex systems such as the human brain or global weather
patterns is now being tested for use at the Science and Technology
Facilities Council's (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory, at Sci-Tech
Daresbury in Cheshire.
Part
of a major £960k project funded by the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), researchers from Queen's
University Belfast and the University of Manchester are creating
ground-breaking computer software that
will increase the ability of supercomputers to process masses of data
at higher speeds than ever before. This next generation of
software is now being tested, evaluated and optimised for use by
computational scientists.
Supercomputers
are the key drivers of scientific advancement in every aspect of
research. By simulating detailed models of natural phenomena such as
ocean currents, the blood flow of a human body and global weather
patterns using thousands of computer cores in parallel, scientists
can use the information they produce to help address some of the big
global challenges including sustainable energy, the rise in global
temperatures, and worldwide epidemics.
The
new software will be critical to the next generation of Exascale
supercomputers, that could exist within the next 5 years, and will be
capable of performing 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, or one billion,
billion calculations per second. This is a thousand times more
powerful than the Chinese Tianhe1A – the fastest supercomputer in
operation today. But Exascale supercomputers will also rely on the
development of equally as powerful, cutting edge software that will
enable them to process masses of data at higher speeds than ever
before. The new software will also contribute to increased energy
efficiency, without which the supercomputers will be limited by the
power they consume.
Dr
Mike Ashworth, Head of Application Performance Engineering at STFC's
Scientific Computing Department, said: "Our next generation of
supercomputers will enable scientists to tackle challenges that seem
impossible today, such as detailed simulation of the whole Earth
system and of the human
brain.
As well as tackling big global challenges, they are becoming
absolutely crucial to industry for breakthroughs in faster and
cheaper development of new products and materials. I am very
excited that STFC's world leading expertise in software development
is playing a key role in enabling our collaborators to develop this
next-generation software, which will be vital for tomorrow's exascale
systems."
The
project's Principal Investigator, Professor Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
from the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at Queen's University Belfast, said: "Software that
exploits the capability of Exascale systems means that complex
computing simulations which would take thousands of years on a
desktop computer will be completed in a matter of minutes. This
research has the potential to give us insights into how to combat
some of the biggest issues facing humanity at the moment."
Part
of a major £960k project funded by the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), researchers from Queen's
University Belfast and the University of Manchester are creating
ground-breaking computer software that
will increase the ability of supercomputers to process masses of data
at higher speeds than ever before. This next generation of
software is now being tested, evaluated and optimised for use by
computational scientists.
Supercomputers
are the key drivers of scientific advancement in every aspect of
research. By simulating detailed models of natural phenomena such as
ocean currents, the blood flow of a human body and global weather
patterns using thousands of computer cores in parallel, scientists
can use the information they produce to help address some of the big
global challenges including sustainable energy, the rise in global
temperatures, and worldwide epidemics.
The
new software will be critical to the next generation of Exascale
supercomputers, that could exist within the next 5 years, and will be
capable of performing 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, or one billion,
billion calculations per second. This is a thousand times more
powerful than the Chinese Tianhe1A – the fastest supercomputer in
operation today. But Exascale supercomputers will also rely on the
development of equally as powerful, cutting edge software that will
enable them to process masses of data at higher speeds than ever
before. The new software will also contribute to increased energy
efficiency, without which the supercomputers will be limited by the
power they consume.
Dr
Mike Ashworth, Head of Application Performance Engineering at STFC's
Scientific Computing Department, said: "Our next generation of
supercomputers will enable scientists to tackle challenges that seem
impossible today, such as detailed simulation of the whole Earth
system and of the human
brain.
As well as tackling big global challenges, they are becoming
absolutely crucial to industry for breakthroughs in faster and
cheaper development of new products and materials. I am very
excited that STFC's world leading expertise in software development
is playing a key role in enabling our collaborators to develop this
next-generation software, which will be vital for tomorrow's exascale
systems."
The
project's Principal Investigator, Professor Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
from the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at Queen's University Belfast, said: "Software that
exploits the capability of Exascale systems means that complex
computing simulations which would take thousands of years on a
desktop computer will be completed in a matter of minutes. This
research has the potential to give us insights into how to combat
some of the biggest issues facing humanity at the moment."
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