"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 2007 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

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