How to Develop Apps for Supercomputers that Don’t Exist Yet

U.S. national laboratories are about to enter the exascale era by turning on supercomputers that can perform a billion billion operations per second. But all hardware needs software, which led the Energy Department to create the Exascale Computing Project—a vast network of some of the nation’s top scientists to create programs to simulate wind farms and nuclear stockpiles, perform precision medicine and more.