Best Exascale Computing Project Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 105: Computing Luminary Jack Dongarra’s Perspective on the Exascale Computing Project 22:15

2y ago22:15

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Episode notes: Jack Dongarra says ECP has been a great success in terms of human and technical accomplishments but post-project follow-on is critical.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 104: Siting the El Capitan Exascale Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab. 31:33

2y ago31:33

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Episode notes: Lawrence Livermore National Lab is preparing for El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s first exascale supercomputer.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 103: Revisiting the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) Project 21:41

2y ago21:41

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Episode notes: The CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) project provides deep-learning computing methodologies for accelerating cancer research.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 102: Delivering Impactful Science, Deploying Aurora, and Partnering with ECP at the ALCF 31:29

2y ago31:29

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Episode notes: Katherine Riley leads a team of computational science experts who work with facility users to maximize their use of ALCF computing resources.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 101: Discussing NERSC's Unique Global Role and Close Collaboration with ECP 29:39

2+ y ago29:39

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Episode notes: Richard Gerber ensures the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center remains responsive to the needs of scientific researchers.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 100: Reflecting on the ‘Why’ behind Supercomputing Simulations: Advancing Science 28:03

2+ y ago28:03

28:03

Episode notes: Bronson Messer, director of science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, has an expert perspective on supercomputing for science.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 99: ECP's WarpX Team Successfully Models Promising Laser Plasma Accelerator Technology 32:14

2+ y ago32:14

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Episode notes: ECP research could remove a major limitation of laser plasma accelerators, a technology that may improve many walks of life.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 98: Providing Exascale-Class Multiphysics Simulation Capability to Multiple Science Domains 29:55

2+ y ago29:55

29:55

Episode notes: Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package, integrates tools that provide a performance portability solution for exascale computing.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 97: Enabling Highly Accurate and Reliable Predictions of the Basic Properties of Materials 22:27

3y ago22:27

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Episode notes: The QMCPACK project intends to provide the capability to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the quantum level.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 96: Leveraging Machine Learning for Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering 18:26

3y ago18:26

18:26

Episode notes: Machine learning technologies are creating inspiring new opportunity vistas for scientific discovery and research at the exascale.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 95: Enabling Cross-Project Research to Strengthen Math Libraries for Scientific Simulations 24:23

3y ago24:23

24:23

Episode notes: Project teams can improve the capabilities of math libraries, the foundation of scientific simulations, via cross-project research.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 94: Revisiting the E4S Software Ecosystem Upon Release of Version 22.02 16:34

3y ago16:34

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Episode notes: The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) continues to evolve as a broad collection of software capabilities for scientific research.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 93: Preparing the PETSc/TAO Software Suite to Support Exascale Scientific Applications 23:15

3y ago23:15

23:15

Episode notes: An Exascale Computing Project team is getting the longtime open-source PETSc/TAO software suite ready to support exascale applications.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 92: Helping Users Deploy High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries 10:04

3+ y ago10:04

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Episode notes: The latest version of the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) provides support for three different GPU architectures.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 91: Let's Talk Exascale Code Development: CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) 15:42

3+ y ago15:42

15:42

Episode notes: ECP plays key support roles in the CANDLE project, which is addressing three significant science challenge problems in cancer research.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 90: Frontier: Designing the Electrical Infrastructure for Unprecedented Power Demands 12:17

3+ y ago12:17

12:17

Episode Notes: Effective communications, humble problem-solving, lessons learned, and synergy are success factors in realizing the Frontier supercomputer.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 89: Helping Large-Scale Multiphysics Engineering and Scientific Applications 25:54

3+ y ago25:54

25:54

Episode Notes: Trilinos, a federated group of software packages with guiding principles, offers much autonomy in solving engineering and science problems.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 88: Frontier: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems 13:26

3+ y ago13:26

13:26

Episode Notes: Engineer David Grant must check and recheck many important design details before Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer, is powered on.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 87: Frontier: ORNL’s Justin Whitt on Deploying the Nation’s First Exascale Supercomputer 9:37

3+ y ago9:37

9:37

Episode Notes: Justin Whitt describes what Frontier will do, why it's unique, progress with deployment, what’s special about exascale computing, and more.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 86: An Interview with Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe 24:01

3+ y ago24:01

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Episode Notes: Doug Kothe explains the need for ECP, the why and how of its origin, its unique team dynamics, and its enduring legacy.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 85: Sunita Chandrasekaran on Teaching Supercomputing and Leading the ECP SOLLVE Project 18:52

3+ y ago18:52

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Episode Notes: As principal investigator of the ECP SOLLVE project, Sunita Chandrasekaran emphasizes the development of sustainable software.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 84: The Flux Software Framework Manages and Schedules Modern Supercomputing Workflows 35:04

3+ y ago35:04

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Episode Notes: Flux manages and schedules scientific workflows to optimize computing and other resources and enable applications to run faster and better.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 83: Optimizing North American Power Grid to Improve Reliability and Grid Decarbonization 13:21

4y ago13:21

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Episode Notes: The ExaSGD project wants to enable the day-to-day operation of the national power grid to hold a large number of renewable power sources.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 82: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: WDMapp—XGC, GENE, GEM 49:13

4y ago49:13

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Episode Notes: The latest in the code-for-Aurora series explores an app aimed at high-fidelity whole device modeling of magnetically confined fusion plasmas.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 81: Applying Graph Algorithms to Solve Key Science Problems of Importance to the Nation 36:37

4y ago36:37

36:37

Episode Notes: ExaGraph aims to leave a lasting legacy of algorithms, implementations, and graph-enabled applications for scientific discovery.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 80: Update with Doug Kothe: Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights, and More 22:02

4y ago22:02

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Episode Notes: Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe discusses the state of the project, the recent Annual Meeting, and other topics.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 79: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: HACC 22:02

4y ago22:02

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Episode Notes: This time, ECP's special podcast series on preparing code for the Aurora exascale supercomputer takes a look at the cosmological code HACC.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 78: Ensuring the Exascale Ecosystem Lands Successfully at Energy Department Facilities. 17:35

4y ago17:35

17:35

Episode Notes: The Exascale Computing Project Software Deployment at Facilities project tests and verifies software functionality and efficiency.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 77: Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: EQSIM 18:43

4y ago18:43

18:43

Episode Notes: ECP’s podcast series on preparing code for the Aurora exascale system begins by focusing on an earthquake risk assessment application.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 76: Exploiting Exascale Computing to Make Earthquake Simulation Codes More Powerful 16:13

4+ y ago16:13

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Episode Notes: Simulating earthquake processes from end to end is key to being able to design bridges and buildings to be more resilient to earthquakes.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 75: Supporting Scientific Discovery and Data Analysis in the Exascale Era 18:43

4+ y ago18:43

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Episode Notes: ECP's Data and Visualization portfolio is delivering data management software to store, save state, share, and facilitate the analysis of exascale data.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 74: Collaborative Strength Enables the EXAALT Project to Optimize GPU Performance 22:10

4+ y ago22:10

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The EXAALT project could bring atomistic materials predictions to the engineering scale and demystify materials design and synthesis.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 73: Intel Executive Discusses Engagement with Energy Department, Argonne, and ECP 7:41

4+ y ago7:41

7:41

Episode Notes: Intel executive Trish Damkroger shares her excitement over exascale computing and the design of the Aurora supercomputer.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 72: Special—ECP Leadership Discusses Project Highlights, Challenges, & the Expected Impact 1:26:54

4+ y ago1:26:54

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Episode Notes: Members of the Exascale Computing Project leadership team summarize the state of the project and delve into the major accomplishments.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 71: Scaling up Clean Fossil Fuel Combustion Technology for Industrial Use 33:55

5y ago33:55

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Episode Notes: Exascale computing could help researchers prepare promising carbon-capture and storage technologies to go from the lab to commercial settings.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 70: E3SM-MMF: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence 17:15

5y ago17:15

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Episode Notes: By exploiting the power and performance advantages of GPUs and exascale computing, researchers aim to better predict changes to Earth’s water cycles.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 69: Major Update of the MFEM Finite Element Library Broadens GPU Support 6:28

5y ago6:28

6:28

Episode Notes: The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) recently released version 4.1 of its MFEM software, with features for exascale.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 68: ExaAM Project Aims to Transform Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation 25:00

5y ago25:00

25:00

Episode Notes: John Turner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides a look at additive manufacturing and the ExaAM project from different angles.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 67: Flexible Package Manager Automates the Deployment of Software on Supercomputers 5:54

5y ago5:54

5:54

Episode Notes: Spack (Supercomputer PACKage manager) is an R&D 100–Award winner because of its worldwide impact on high-performance computing.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 66: Reducing the Memory Footprint and Data Movement on Exascale Systems 12:36

5y ago12:36

12:36

Episode Notes: The ZFP software development effort is tackling the critical task of overcoming the performance cost of data movement for exascale computing.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 65: Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing 7:51

5y ago7:51

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Episode Notes: Container technology has provided greater software flexibility, reliability, ease of deployment, and portability—an ECP project aims to deliver it for exascale computing systems.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 64: Creating the Ability to Design Smaller, Cheaper Particle Accelerators 9:12

5y ago9:12

9:12

Episode Notes: The WarpX project is developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research to pave the way for new virtual experiments.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 63: Delivering Exascale Machine Learning Algorithms and Tools for Scientific Research 10:42

5y ago10:42

10:42

Episode Notes: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics are converging with high-performance computing to advance scientific discovery.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 62: Collaborative Community Impacts High-Performance Computing Programming Environments 10:43

5y ago10:43

10:43

Episode Notes: LLVM within the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project is an open-source collaboration project that develops a compiler infrastructure.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 61: Helping Applications Use Future Architectures with First-Rate Discretization Libraries 9:47

5y ago9:47

9:47

Episode Notes: The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) is a hub for high-order mathematical methods to increase application efficiency and performance.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 60: Simplifying the Deployment of High-Performance Computing Tools and Libraries 8:34

5y ago8:34

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The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) lowers barriers by accelerating the development, deployment, and use of software.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 59: Ushering in a New Approach to Scientific Computing 7:12

5y ago7:12

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Episode Notes: CODAR, an Exascale Computing Project co-design center, aims to produce an infrastructure for online data analysis and reduction.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 58: Project Update: Excellent Review Results, Readiness for Accelerated Architectures, More 31:13

5y ago31:13

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Episode Notes: Disciplined and tailored project management led to very impressive results for ECP in a comprehensive independent review.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 57: Solving Multiphysics Problems at Scale on Today's Most Powerful Supercomputers 13:38

5y ago13:38

13:38

Episode Notes: DTK and ArborX technologies enable researchers to focus more on their science rather than on low-level algorithms in simulations.By Exascale Computing Project

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Episode 56: Earth and Space Science Applications Simulate Elusive Phenomena to Confirm Observations 13:26

5y ago13:26

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Episode Notes: ECP Earth and Space Science teams are producing sophisticated tools for large-scale scientific discoveries.By Exascale Computing Project

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