Programming Future Large Scale Systems

Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

DOE recently announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) would both procure large systems from IBM as a result of the CORAL RFP. These systems, which represent significant steps on the path to exascale, will include NVIDIA Volta GPUs. Thus, a major consideration is how their significant performance potential will be accessed. This talk will provide an overview of the CORAL RFP and a brief discussion of the planned systems. It will then detail how LLNL applications will evolve to use this and other future large-scale systems.