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
