Viable exascale supercomputers require fast performance with reduced energy consumption

Exascale supercomputers are next-generation supercomputers capable of simulating many hitherto unsolvable complex systems at fine-grained resolution and with atomic precision. To do that, exascale supercomputers rely on next-generation processing chips with faster performance and more transistors per unit chip area. However, faster processor speed and more transistor per unit chip area would also drive up … More Viable exascale supercomputers require fast performance with reduced energy consumption

Increasing amount of supercomputer time is devoted to data analysis

Supercomputers are typically used for data intensive and computationally expensive complex simulations in the geosciences, structural biology, meteorology and cosmology. But, increasingly, supercomputers are used for data analysis of large datasets in myriad fields such as astronomy, genomics, and proteomics. More importantly, the advent of machine learning and the desire to find otherwise hidden patterns … More Increasing amount of supercomputer time is devoted to data analysis