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Honorees from the ECP team accept their award in Washington, DC on January 8. (Credit: DOE Photographer Donica Payne)
Approximately 200 staff from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including several from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), have been recognized with a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for their work on the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The Secretary's Honor Awards, which include Achievement Awards and Excellence Awards, recognize DOE employees and contractors for their service and contributions to the department's mission and the benefit of the nation.
The team was recognized for their achievements in successfully delivering the ECP, a seven-year, $1.8-billion collaboration between six DOE laboratories to create the world’s first sustainable exascale computing ecosystem. Over the course of the project, nearly 3,000 researchers and engineers received funding, leading to the development and enhancement of key scientific application codes to provide breakthrough simulation results on exascale computers. Additionally, more than 70 exascale-capable software technology products were delivered in an integrated package widely used by the high performance computing (HPC) community.
The first-of-its-kind software research, development, and deployment project was jointly managed by the DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, with leadership from Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia National Laboratories. According to DOE, the leadership team “employed a hybrid of agile and traditional management practices, allowing the team to deliver leading-edge computing hardware and advanced software while utilizing disciplined project management approaches.”
Additionally, according to DOE, the project's success was driven by the integration of more than 100 teams, facilitated by annual meetings, an effective communications approach, and shared-fate milestones within a culture of teamwork and innovation. ECP also established public-private partnerships by funding vendors to prepare the domestic industry for exascale system procurements, enhancing U.S. competitiveness in the global computing market.
“I know firsthand that ECP brought together a remarkable set of researchers and engineers as part of a team that was focused on building an amazing exascale software ecosystem, including both software tools and scientific applications, and integrating this effort with the HPC systems being deployed across DOE,” said Jonathan Carter, Associate Lab Director in the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area. “It’s great to see this effort being recognized in this way.”
A ceremony for the honorees took place on January 8 in Washington, D.C. Awardees from Berkeley Lab include Carl Steefel (EESA), Dan Kasen (Physics), Daniel Martin (AMCR), David McCallen (EESA), Debbie Bard (NERSC), Jack Deslippe (NERSC), Jean-Luc Vay (ATAP), John Bell (AMCR), John Shalf (AMCR), Jonathan Carter (CS Area), Katie Antypas (NERSC), Kathy Yelick (CS Area), Nick Sauter (BioSciences), Osni Marques (AMCR), Paul Hargrove (AMCR), Paul Lin (NERSC), Phil Colella (AMCR), Richard Gerber (NERSC), Shahzeb Siddiqui (NERSC), Sherry Li (AMCR), and Suren Byna (AMCR).
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility that serves as the primary high performance computing center for scientific research sponsored by the Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC serves almost 10,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in climate, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a DOE national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. »Learn more about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab.
