Industry Perspectives

SC17 Panel Preview: How Serious Are We About the Convergence Between HPC and Big Data?

SC17 will feature a panel discussion entitled How Serious Are We About the Convergence Between HPC and Big Data? "The possible convergence between the third and fourth paradigms confronts the scientific community with both a daunting challenge and a unique opportunity. The challenge resides in the requirement to support both heterogeneous workloads with the same hardware architecture. The opportunity lies in creating a common software stack to accommodate the requirements of scientific simulations and big data applications productively while maximizing performance and throughput. [Read More...]