Exascale and the Convergence of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, AI and IoT

Abstract

The field of high-performance computing (HPC) or supercomputing refers to the building and using computing systems that are orders of magnitude faster than our common systems. The top supercomputer, Summit, can perform 148,600 trillion calculations in one second (148.6 PF on LINPAC). The top two supercomputers are now in the USA followed by two Chinese supercomputers. Many countries are racing to break the record and build an ExaFLOP supercomputer that can perform more than one million trillion (quintillion) calculations per second. In fact the is two supercomputers in 2021 one of which, when fully operational (Frontier), will perform at 1.5 EF. examine in for a smart We also briefly take a bird’s eye peak at the race for creating postMoore’s law processors to address existing challenges beyond the exascale.