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<p><strong>Argonne National Laboratory</strong></p>
<p><strong>Mathematics and Computer Science Division</strong></p>
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<p>Prepared by</p>
<p><strong>S. Balay</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>S. Abhyankar</strong> <sup>1,2</sup>,
<strong>M. F. Adams</strong> <sup>3</sup>,
<strong>S. Benson</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>J. Brown</strong> <sup>1,10</sup>,
<strong>P. Brune</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>K. Buschelman</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>E. M. Constantinescu</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>L. Dalcin</strong> <sup>4</sup>,
<strong>A. Dener</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>V. Eijkhout</strong> <sup>6</sup>,
<strong>J. Faibussowitsch</strong> <sup>1,18</sup>,
<strong>W. D. Gropp</strong> <sup>1,18</sup>,
<strong>V. Hapla</strong> <sup>8</sup>,
<strong>T. Isaac</strong> <sup>1,14</sup>,
<strong>P. Jolivet</strong> <sup>12,22</sup>,
<strong>D. Karpeev</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>D. Kaushik</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>M. G. Knepley</strong> <sup>1,9</sup>,
<strong>F. Kong</strong> <sup>1,11</sup>,
<strong>S. Kruger</strong> <sup>15</sup>,
<strong>D. A. May</strong> <sup>7,21</sup>,
<strong>L. Curfman McInnes</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>R. Tran Mills</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>L. Mitchell</strong> <sup>13,20</sup>,
<strong>T. Munson</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>J. E. Roman</strong> <sup>16</sup>,
<strong>K. Rupp</strong> <sup>1,19</sup>,
<strong>P. Sanan</strong> <sup>1,8</sup>,
<strong>J. Sarich</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>B. F. Smith</strong> <sup>1,17</sup>,
<strong>H. Suh</strong> <sup>1</sup>,
<strong>S. Zampini</strong> <sup>4</sup>,
<strong>H. Zhang</strong> <sup>1,5</sup>,
<strong>H. Zhang</strong> <sup>1</sup>, and
<strong>J. Zhang</strong> <sup>1</sup></p>
<p><sup>1</sup> Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory</p>
<p><sup>2</sup> Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</p>
<p><sup>3</sup> Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</p>
<p><sup>4</sup> Extreme Computing Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology</p>
<p><sup>5</sup> Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology</p>
<p><sup>6</sup> Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin</p>
<p><sup>7</sup> Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford</p>
<p><sup>8</sup> Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich</p>
<p><sup>9</sup> Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo</p>
<p><sup>10</sup> Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder</p>
<p><sup>11</sup> Computational Frameworks, Idaho National Laboratory</p>
<p><sup>12</sup> Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6</p>
<p><sup>13</sup> NVIDIA Corporation</p>
<p><sup>14</sup> College of Computing, Georgia Tech</p>
<p><sup>15</sup> Tech-X Corporation</p>
<p><sup>16</sup> DSIC, Universitat Politècnica de València</p>
<p><sup>17</sup> Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation</p>
<p><sup>18</sup> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</p>
<p><sup>19</sup> Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien</p>
<p><sup>20</sup> Department of Computer Science, Durham University</p>
<p><sup>21</sup> Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego</p>
<p><sup>22</sup> Toulouse INP, CNRS, Institute of Computer Science Research</p>
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<p>This work was supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.</p>
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