International collaboration. Although
global competition for advanced computing
and data-analytics leadership
continues, there is active international
collaboration. The International Exascale
Software Project (IESP) is one
such example in advanced computing.
With seed funding from governments
in Japan, the E.U., and the U.S.,
as well as supplemental contributions
from industry stakeholders, IESP was
formed to empower ultra-high-resolution
and data-intensive science and engineering
research through 2020.
In a series of meetings, the international
IESP team developed a plan for a
common, high-quality computational
environment for petascale/exascale
systems. The associated roadmap for
software development would take the
community from its current position
to exascale computing.7