Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing operations per second.

Liu acknowledged for wide-ranging work in energy materials, catalysis, carbon sequestration, material in extreme conditions and scientific big data mining.

Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.