In this video from HPE, researchers describe how Exascale will advance science and improve the quality of life for all.
“Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Energy tasked elite teams at six major computing companies with researching and developing an exascale supercomputer. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was one of those six. An exascale supercomputer would represent a massive leap forward in high-performance computing and usher in a new era of possibilities for computer modeling and simulation. With the ability to run a quintillion calculations per second—that’s a one with eighteen zeros after it—the implications of an exascale computer would touch nearly every facet of our lives.”
We could build a supercomputer capable of an exascale level of computation today, but because of current hardware and software limitations, it would require a dedicated power plant and fourteen football fields of space to operate. So experts are completely rethinking the supercomputing architecture we’ve built on for decades.
Why is the U.S. government throwing down this gauntlet? Many countries are engaged in what has been referred to as a race to exascale. But getting there isn’t just for national bragging rights. Getting to exascale means reaching a new frontier for humanity, and the opportunity to potentially solve humanity’s most pressing problems.
In this video from ISC 2017, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE discusses the company’s recent PathForward award as well as the challenges of designing energy efficient Exascale systems.
