NS-FUTURE Joint Seminar by Kamer Kaya

(High-Performance) Computing: Why It Matters

Kamer Kaya 

High Performance Computing is a strategic resource for the future as all scientific disciplines are becoming “computational”. Genome sequencing, personalized medicine, early detection of diseases, realistic simulations for disasters and outbreaks, analyzing human brain and big-data analytics are only a few examples for which HPC matters. Today, Exascale Computing, performing 10^18 floating point operations per second, is HPC researchers’ holy grail but decades of HPC research show that we cannot compute in exascale without going around architectural limitations. In this seminar, we will talk about the history of (high-performance) computing, the modern HPC hardware we use today, their strengths and bottlenecks.