The MAterials design at eXascale (MaX) centre of excellence enables materials modelling, simulations, discovery and design at the frontiers of the current and future High Performance Computing (HPC), High Throughput Computing (HTC) and data analytics technologies.

The increasingly high accuracy and predictive power of computer simulations, combined with the progressively higher levels of computing and storage capacity of HPC technologies, nowadays enables a paradigm shift in materials design and discovery, in which more and more complex material behaviour will be addressed by easily accessible, interdisciplinary and easy-to-use computational experiments.

To drive this transition, MaX focuses on creating an ecosystem of capabilities, software applications and data workflows and analysis on HPC-oriented material simulations, designed for present and future HPC architectures. A major effort is on providing training and services for the broader HPC industrial and academic community.

Over the next decade HPC systems are expected to be capable of one exaflop (10^18 operations per second) and to manage and analyse data sets up to one exabyte (10^18 bytes). Imagine a future in which computer simulations are at least 1000 times faster and more workable: new materials, new ideas, new applications will be pushed ahead by an ever-increasing number of scientists, designers and entrepreneurs.