Everything about Exascale computing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Exascale computingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experimentsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Exascale Scientific ApplicationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Exascale computing and big dataCited 353 times
5. Go sideways: Aurora (supercomputer)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: High-performance computingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Exascale computing and big data

  Daniel A. Reed, Jack Dongarra · 2015 · Communications of the ACM · 353 citations

• Addressing failures in exascale computing

  Marc Snir, Robert W Wisniewski, Jacob A Abraham · 2014 · The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications · 284 citations

• The Exascale Computing Project

  Paul Messina · 2017 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 84 citations

• Achieving Exascale Capabilities through Heterogeneous Computing

  Michael J. Schulte, Mike Ignatowski, Gabriel H. Loh · 2015 · IEEE Micro · 75 citations

• Simulations in the era of exascale computing

  Choongseok Chang, Volker L. Deringer, Kalpana S. Katti · 2023 · Nature Reviews Materials · 60 citations

• Towards Exascale Lattice Boltzmann computing

  S. Succi, G. Amati, M. Bernaschi · 2019 · Computers & Fluids · 59 citations

• Exascale Computing in the United States

  Douglas Kothe, Stephen Lee, Irene Qualters · 2019 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 59 citations

• Multiscale computing in the exascale era

  Saad Alowayyed, Derek Groen, Peter V. Coveney · 2017 · Journal of Computational Science · 56 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments

  Hantao Ji, William Daughton, Jonathan Jara-Almonte · 2022 · Nature Reviews Physics · 135 citations

• Pre-Exascale Computing of Protein–Ligand Binding Free Energies with Open Source Software for Drug Design

  Vytautas Gapsys, David F. Hahn, Gary Tresadern · 2022 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 52 citations

• GRaM-X: a new GPU-accelerated dynamical spacetime GRMHD code for Exascale computing with the Einstein Toolkit

  Swapnil Shankar, Philipp Mösta, Steven R Brandt · 2023 · Classical and Quantum Gravity · 30 citations

• Exascale Computing and Data Handling: Challenges and Opportunities for Weather and Climate Prediction

  Mark Govett, Bubacar Bah, Peter Bauer · 2024 · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 22 citations

• Adapting arepo-rt for exascale computing: GPU acceleration and efficient communication

  Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith · 2024 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 21 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Exascale Scientific ApplicationsTjerk P. Straatsma, Katerina B. Antypas · 2017

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🔗 Related topics

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