Resilience for Extreme Scale Supercomputing Systems

The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) in the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby invites proposals for basic research that significantly improves the resiliency of scientific applications in the context of emerging architectures for extreme scale computing platforms. The next-generation of scientific discovery will be enabled by research developments that can effectively harness significant or disruptive advances in computing technology. Applications running on extreme scale computing systems will generate results with orders of magnitude higher resolution and fidelity, achieving a time-to-solution significantly shorter than possible with today?s high performance computing platforms. However, indications are that these new systems will experience hard and soft errors with increasing frequency, necessitating research to develop new approaches to resilience that enable applications to run efficiently to completion in a timely manner and achieve correct results. Of interest are proposals that address challenges in the following topics: 1. Fault Detection and Categorization 2. Fault Mitigation 3. Anomaly Detection and Fault Avoidance More specific information is included under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION in the full funding opportunity announcement document DE-FOA-0001059. The full text of the FOA is located on FedConnect. Instructions for completing the Grant Application Package are contained in the full text of the FOA which can be obtained at: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0001059&agency=DOE. A companion Program Announcement to DOE Laboratories (LAB 14-1059) will be posted on the SC Grants and Contracts web site at: http://science.energy.gov/grants/