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Excellence in Science & Technology

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Data
Analytics and Simulation at Extreme Scales

2025 Vision: Data- and compute-intensive operations are coequal partners in research,
promoting accelerated scientific discovery on extreme-scale computing platforms.

Goals At PNNL’s Center for Advanced
Technology Evaluation (CENATE),
• Accelerate research and discovery integrat- researchers test next-generation,
ing scalable data analytics and predictive extreme-scale supercomputers
modeling and simulation, addressing a key on mission relevant data analytics
challenge in basic computer science and to assess performance before
mathematics research with initial impacts in these high-cost machines make
grid, cyber, climate, and chemistry domains it into production.

• Focus on advancing computing as an inde-
pendent research field and on applying
computing and data analytics to scientific
discovery in multiple fields

• Develop and integrate software applica-
tions, tools, architectures, and methods
to exploit the rapid and complex growth
of data in scale, velocity, hetrogeneity,
and dimensionality

• Lead machine learning for DOE missions
and coupled human-machine discovery

Research Partner “PNNL is a leader in the development of software applications
for some of today’s largest and fastest computing systems. With
our sponsors in DOE’s Office of Science and the Department of
Defense, PNNL is successfully integrating data- and computing-
intensive architectures to unlock major advances in energy and
materials sciences, human health, and national security.”

Lou Terminello Nathan Baker Bill Pike
Steward Science Lead Science Lead

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