Exascale Computing Project Q&A: Building science applications for a new era of supercomputers
Applications are the tools that direct a computer to work on specific tasks. Scientific applications for high-performance and data-analytic computing—such as those that model the dynamics of atoms or electrons—impact nearly every corner of research and development, from the physics of star explosions to squeezing the last percent of efficiency out of a jet engine. Over the next decade, as supercomputing moves from petascale (1015 calculations per second) to exascale (1018calculations per second), advances in technology will change what applications are capable of and how they interact with new software and hardware technologies.