Blue Waters Symposium 2019

For years, extreme scale High-Performance Computing has been used to investigate cosmology --the origin and development of the universe via simulations.Optical Astronomical Surveys, such as the Dark Energy Survey, collect data used to compare cosmological simulations with observation based measurements. The Dark Energy survey recently completed six years of observations primarily targeted at the phenomena known as dark energy, the continuing acceleration of the universe. Blue Waters is a crucial infrastructure used for the most ongoing demanding tasks to derive physical measurements from the observations of the Dark EnergySurvey. My goal for attendance --to continue to work/ understand issues with HPC machines in the context of experimental, rather than simulation science.