The changing role of supercomputing

Abstract

Today's largest supercomputers are primarily doing scientific simulations at the petascale level. In the future, supercomputers are moving in a multitude of directions including dealing with the technology challenges of moving to exascale, incorporating heterogeneous architectures and accelerators such as many-core processors and GPU's as well as incorporating the challenges of Big Data. This will pose a variety of issues toward the future of our industry that range from technical, business and personnel-related challenges. This talk will attempt to discuss a few of these and present a vision for they will come together in the future.