If HPC had a rock star band, Rick Stevens might well be lead guitarist and do the vocals. The associate lab director and Exascale Computing Initiative leader at Argonne National Lab (and professor at the University of Chicago) has one of the most impressive records of sustained achievement in the HPC community. Here, in part one of a two-part episode of the @HPCpodcast, Stevens takes up the topic of AI is changing the face of science from the points of view of a scientist and a computer scientist.
In 2019, Stevens led a series of town halls attended by more than 1,000 scientists at at Argonne, Oak Ridge and Berkeley national laboratories on the relevance and applications of AI in scientific research attended by over 1,000 scientists and engineers. In this far ranging conversation with Stevens, he looks at some of the issues (probability vs precision, data management, automated reasoning and surrogate machine learning vs. physics-based HPC simulations) raised during his town hall series, how AI for science has progressed since then and where it’s going in the post-exascale era of supercomputing in the 2020s and beyond.
You can find our podcasts on insideHPC, at our Twitter page and at the OrionX.net blog. Here’s the RSS feed: http://orionx.net/category/audio-podcast/feed
We welcome your ideas for special topics and guest commentators. Feel free to contact Doug or Shahin with your suggestions.
Another excellent podcast. Informative, easy to listen to and follow. Well edited. And, incredibly good conversation with Argonne’s Rick Stevens. Looking forward to part 2.