Exa-DI: the co-design and co-development in NumPEx is moving forward
The implementation of the co-design and co-development process within NumPEx is one of Exa-DI’s objectives for the production of augmented and productive software. To this end, Exa-DI has organised three working groups open to all NumPEx members.
The Exa-DI project is responsible for implementing the co-design and co-development process within NumPEx, with the aim of producing augmented and productive exascale software that is science-driven. In this context, Exa-DI has already organised three workshops: one on “Efficient discretisation for exascale EDPs”, another on “Block-structured AMR at exascale” and a third on “Artificial intelligence for exascale HPC”. These two-day in-person workshops brought together Exa-DI members, members of other NumPEx projects, teams demonstrating applications from various sectors of research and industry, and experts.
Discussions focused on:
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- Challenges related to the co-design and co-development process
- Key issues
- The most pressing issues for collective development and strengthening links between NumPEx and applications
- Initiatives promoting the sustainability of exascale software and performance portability.
A very interesting and stimulating result was the establishment of working groups focused on a set of shared and well-specified mini-applications representing the cross-cutting computational and communication patterns identified. Several application teams have expressed interest in participating in these groups. To date, four working groups are actively engaged in the co-design and co-development of mini-applications, with a view to integrating and evaluating the logical sets of software components developed in the NumPEx projects.
