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ContactNETL researchers recently took a significant step forward in harnessing the power of the world’s largest computer chip — the Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) — by using an application programming interface designed inhouse to connect commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software through data-file sharing with the next-generation computing technology. CFD software enables researchers to model the complex behavior of energy systems to help increase efficiency and performance. Typically, CFD relies on high-performance supercomputing, but such systems based on the WSE hold the promise to run high-fidelity simulations hundreds of times faster and with far less energy. “While the WSE is an incredibly powerful computer chip, its architecture requires a new programming interface to integrate with any scientific software,” said NETL’s Dirk Van Essendelft. “We have been working with Cerebras Systems, the creator of the WSE, to develop the WSE field equation application programming interface to achieve this integration.”
MFiX also will leverage Wafer Scale Engine technology by exploring novel methodologies to increase computational speeds and/or reduce computational energy requirements.
Program and project information is presented in the dashboard below, presorted by WSE.
