2020 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award
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Event Type
Awards Presentation
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TimeMonday, 16 November 202012:45pm - 1:30pm EST
LocationTrack 1
DescriptionSupercomputing: A Very Personal Perspective
Supercomputing has come a long way from when I was first exposed to it in the early 1990s. In many domains, it has gone from being a scientific tool to an entire way of doing science, the nature of which evolves as the field itself changes. In this talk, I will cover some of these aspects in a general way and then focus on computational cosmology and the development and evolution of the HACC code as a specific example of a guided response to hardware and scientific imperatives.
Supercomputing has come a long way from when I was first exposed to it in the early 1990s. In many domains, it has gone from being a scientific tool to an entire way of doing science, the nature of which evolves as the field itself changes. In this talk, I will cover some of these aspects in a general way and then focus on computational cosmology and the development and evolution of the HACC code as a specific example of a guided response to hardware and scientific imperatives.