ABSTRACT
Modern high performance computing facilities deliver computational and data resources to an ever broadening set of scientific and engineering domains. What was once a cottage industry just two decades ago, HPC is now integral to studies ranging from biology to materials science and everything in between. These domains are using simulation at ever increasing scales driven by increasingly higher resolution models with more accurate representation of physical processes. This confluence has resulted in the build-out of extreme-scale HPC facilities with compute platforms composed of hundreds of thousands of compute cores, high performance networking infrastructures, and parallel I/O environments capable of scaling to terabytes/second of I/O bandwidth while providing tens of petabytes of capacity.
