Computational Science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

The goal of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is to extend the frontiers of science by solving problems that require innovative approaches and the largest-scale computing systems. ALCF’s most powerful computer -- Mira, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system -- has nearly one million cores.  The good news is that many scientific and engineering applications are able to utilize such levels of parallelism, as will be shown by presenting a sampling of projects from varied scientific and engineering domains that are using ALCF systems. Ways to gain access to ALCF resources will be presented as well as the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing - an intensive, two-week program that provides advanced, hands-on training on the key skills needed to pursue computational science and engineering on current high-end computers and on the leadership-class systems of the future.