Towards exascale with the ANR-JST Japanese-French Project FP3C

The Japanese-french FP3C (Framework and Programming for Post-Petascale Computing) Project ANR/JST-2010-JTIC-003 aims at studying the software technologies, languages and programming models on the road to exascale computing. The ability to efficiency exploit these future systems is challenging because of their ultra large-scale and highly hierarchical architecture with computational nodes including many-core processors and accelerators. We give an overview of some of the main issues explored within the project.