Last year at about this time, we discussed the state of HPC and the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Lab. Since then, Aurora has been established as the second American exascale system and the no. 2 system on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
In the run up to SC24, less than two months away, we are delighted to provide an update with Rick and Mike, who kindly carved out time to join us for wide ranging discussion about the Aurora installation and other HPC-AI related topics, including AI for science, reliability at scale, technology adoption agility, data center power and cooling challenges, HPC in the cloud, AI chips, quantum computing and the future of leadership-class supercomputing at the Department of Energy and the national labs.
Along with this conversation, we encourage you to listen to episodes 15 and 16 of the @HPCpodcast, a two-part discussion on AI for science with Prof. Stevens from 2022, along with episode 75, our conversation on Aurora referenced above before SC23.
Rick Stevens is Argonne’s Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He was previously leader of Exascale Computing Initiative at Argonne.
Michael Papka is a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory where he is also deputy associate laboratory director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) and division director of the ALCF.
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