How Argonne’s Sunspot Testbed is Helping Advance Code Development for Aurora

As software is being deployed to the Aurora exascale supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, we are learning more about the performance of the hardware and the potential scientific applications it can enable. Today we talk about Argonne’s new Sunspot testbed and how research teams are using it to optimize code performance in preparation for early science runs on Aurora. 

Guests:

Tim Williams - Deputy Director of Argonne’s Computational Science Division

Venkat Vishwanath - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Data Science Team Lead

Tim Williams        

Venkat Vishwanath

Learn More:

Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) Presentation
https://www.alcf.anl.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/IXPUG-ASIA23%20_PortingSimAIDataAppsToAurora.pdf

 

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

https://www.alcf.anl.gov/

 

ALCF Early Science Program

https://www.alcf.anl.gov/science/early-science-program

 

Argonne Sunspot Testbed Highlights

https://www.alcf.anl.gov/news/argonne-s-new-sunspot-testbed-provides-ramp-aurora-exascale-supercomputer

 

Exascale Computing Project

https://www.exascaleproject.org/

 

4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Built-In Accelerators

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon-accelerated/4th-gen-xeon-scalable-processors.html

 

Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/flex-series/overview.html

 

Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/max-series.html

 

oneAPI

https://www.oneapi.io/

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html

 

SYCL

https://sycl.tech

 

Kokkos

https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos

 

OpenMP

https://www.openmp.org/

 

Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS)

https://docs.daos.io/v2.2/

 

ITER Tokamak (Paris)

https://www.iter.org/mach/Tokamak

 

Conductive Education Center of Orlando (CECO)

https://ceco.org