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"The U.S. faces a major challenge in scientific computation, the foundation of scientific discovery in the 21^st century."

Office of Science Occasional Paper, Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Scientific Computation

This site provides information about the challenge posed by the Earth Simulator and the emerging U.S. response to that challenge.

The Challenge

Earth Simulator (GS40) links

NOVEMBER 2009 LIST Comparisons of supercomputers

Actual results of runs on the ES, and planned projects

Reports and press releases

Overview of Recent Supercomputers (from Top500 website)

Guidelines for International Cooperation on the Earth Simulator

Earth Simulator Update [PDF] from the Asian Technology Information Program
Management and project selection process for the Japanese Earth Simulator, the world’s fastest general-purpose computer, are described. We also provide basic information about the first projects that have been approved.

Conceptual drawings of the ES. Source: Outline of the Earth Simulator, Earth Simulator Research and Development Center, September 1999

The Response

DOE Earth Simulator Rapid Response meeting, May 15-16, 2002

Building the Science Case for Ultra Scale Simulation — Final-release and working documents from the applications community

Relevant Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) documents

Other agency documents / Related links

Last update: July 15, 2009

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