March 2016 - Acme-argonne - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

New ACME software modernization effort - not ECP
by Robert Jacob 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Hello Argonne ACME folks, ACME program manager Dorothy Koch has secured some funding to do work on general software modernization for ACME. This is NOT the Exascale Project funding which will be the subject of a different email. Sandia's Andy Salinger has been tapped to lead the only proposal. He gave me the details in a phone call last week. He, Mark Taylor and Bill Spotz wrote a requested white paper (attached). (Note: the paper mentions CMDV because the new funds came at the same time but this is a separate project.) The tentative total budget is $4.75M/year for at most 3 years. This is a one time piece of funding to get stuff done. It may be cancelled after 1 year. I see this as a chance to do some of the things we proposed in ACME but were not funded. Sandia's white paper outlines a bunch of topics. Andy asked me to scope out the requirements for an at-scale coupler (including budget and staff) and to float ideas for other parts. I've reached out to a few people on this list (Anshu, Jed, Franck, Vijay, Jason, Andreas) to help with this proposal and will keep everyone updated. Rob

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ACME and Exascale
by Robert Jacob 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Hi everyone, Some background: the new Exascale Computing Project includes some funding for Office of Science applications to get them ready for the next generation of machines. There won't be an open call. Instead, projects will be selected based on whitepapers, rankings by labs and backing by program offices. ACME has the enthusiastic backing of BER. In many ways, ACME IS the BER exascale program. ACME is also already projectized and involves multiple labs. All of this helps ACME has submitted one whitepaper to represent all the lab's and the current version is attached. Sandia is handling the submission. The ACME executive committee decided the authorship would be the Exec Comm and the Performance Group leads. A final version of this paper is due next Friday. There will then be a cut-down from 57 possible projects to half that number. We'll be notified by March 11th if we made that cut. We then get to write a longer proposal due a month later. Funding projections are $2.5-$5M/yr for 5 years per project with an option to renew for another 5. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the current white paper. Rob

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ACME all hands, June 7-9
by Robert Jacob 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

The ACME all hands meeting will be June 7-9 in DC. All Argonne ACME staff should plan on attending. Rob

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