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Thoughts at the Threshold of the Exascale Era
An exaflop is an arbitrary milestone, a nice round figure with the kind of symbolic lure the four-minute mile once held. And as we know, there are three stages to these computing milestones that have occurred about once a decade. First comes peak exaflop performance, then a Linpack/TOP500 exaflop, and finally the one that counts …
SC20 Keynote: From Deep Thoughts to (Destination) Earth: Climate Science in the Age of Exascale with Dr. Bjorn Stevens
SC20 is pleased to announce that our Keynote speaker is Prof. Bjorn Stevens of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology. Prof. Stevens will discuss how exascale computing is impacting two opportunities that are changing the face of climate science. One arises from what exascale will enable; the other from what it will not. “Much like the Large …