In this episode of Parallel Programming Talk, NERSC Director Kathy Yelick discusses the challenges of Petascale computing. The interview starts around the 8:00 minute mark.
Questions to Kathy include:
- Could you take a few minutes and tell us about yourself?
- What is NERSC? What is its purpose?
- We contacted you after reading about your center’s new Petascale computing installation. For our audience members that might not know – What is Petascale?
- What kinds of problems require Petascale computers? (Can you give some examples?)
- Who are the users of this computer?
- Can you tell our audience about the Hopper computer?
- Now what about Exascale – is that in the future?
