STEP

The Software Tools Ecosystem Project (STEP) is a US Department of Energy initiative to provide the ongoing support and enhancement needed for critical High Performance Computing (HPC) software tools to remain effective, efficient, and relevant in the rapidly evolving field of HPC. We define Tools to mean the collection of software packages that can be applied to monitor, analyze, and diagnose performance and behavior of computational science applications and systems... Phase I of STEP began in April of 2023. During the last 8 months of 2023, STEP established a series of three Town Hall meetings to understand the opportunities and challenges faced by the HPC software tools community. Each Town Hall meeting was a significant multi-day face-to-face event with between 30 and 50 experts representing the HPC tools developers, vendors, HPC facilities and application teams communities. These disparate communities have not typically or regularly interacted as a group, but have significant..