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The upcoming Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory is estimated to have 180 petaflops of peak performance. Here are some of the early science projects that will be run on it (descriptions at source):

• Extending Moore's Law computing with quantum Monte Carlo
• Design and evaluation of high-efficiency boilers for energy production using a hierarchical V/UQ approach
• High-fidelity simulation of fusion reactor boundary plasmas
• NWChemEx: Tackling chemical, materials and biochemical challenges in the exascale era
• Extreme-scale cosmological hydrodynamics
• Extreme-scale unstructured adaptive [computational fluid dynamics]
• Benchmark simulations of shock-variable density turbulence and shock-boundary layer interactions with applications to engineering modeling
• Lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations for particle and nuclear physics
• Metascalable layered materials genome
• Free energy landscapes of membrane transport proteins

An article at Argonne National Laboratory describes four co-design centers working towards "exascale" supercomputing:

As collaborators in four co-design centers created by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP), researchers at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory are helping to solve some of these complex challenges and pave the way for the creation of exascale supercomputers.

The term 'co-design' describes the integrated development and evolution of hardware technologies, computational applications and associated software. In pursuit of ECP's mission to help people solve realistic application problems through exascale computing, each co-design center targets different features and challenges relating to exascale computing.

• Co-design Center for Online Data Analysis and Reduction at the Exascale (CODAR)
• Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED)
• Co-design Center for Particle Applications (CoPA)
• Block-Structured AMR Co-design Center

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