The purpose of the Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC) is to be an international, virtual organization whose goal is to enhance the ability of member organizations and investigators to make the bridge between Petascale and Extreme computing. The founding partners of the JLESC are INRIA and UIUC. Further members are ANL, BSC, JSC and R-CCS.
JLESC involves computer scientists, engineers and scientists from other disciplines as well as from industry, to ensure that the research facilitated by the Laboratory addresses science and engineering's most critical needs and takes advantage of the continuing evolution of computing technologies.
The 17th JLESC Workshop will take place at ANL, Argonne, from May 13 to 15, 2025.
The 16th JLESC Workshop will take place at R-CCS, Kobe, from April 16 to 18, 2024.
The 15th JLESC Workshop will take place at INRIA Bordeaux, from March 21 to 23, 2023.
The 14th JLESC Workshop will take place at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from September 28 to 30.
The 13th JLESC Workshop goes virtual, Dec 14 to 16, 2021.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, INRIA, the French national computer science institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Jülich Supercomputing Centre and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science formed the Joint Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing, a follow-up of the Inria-Illinois Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. The Joint Laboratory is based at Illinois and includes researchers from INRIA, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Argonne National Laboratory, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, and RIKEN Center for Computational Science as well as JLESC Fellows. It focuses on software challenges found in extreme scale high-performance computers.
In June 2009, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and INRIA, the French national computer science institute, formed the Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. The JLPC was based at Illinois and included researchers from INRIA, Illinois Center for Extreme-Scale Computation, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. It focused on software challenges found in complex high-performance computers.
The success of the JLPC motivated its extension to other partners. Argonne National Laboratory joined in 2013. Barcelona Supercomputing Center joined in 2014 and the JLPC became the Joint Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing. Jülich Supercomputing Centre and RIKEN Center for Computational Science (then RIKEN AICS) joined in 2015. From 2018 to 2024, the University of Tennessee was an associate partner. In 2024, the JLESC Fellowship program was initiated, honoring individuals by inviting them to participate in JLESC activities such as workshops and projects.