HPC Forecast: Cloudy and Uncertain
An examination of how the technology landscape has changed and possible future directions for HPC operations and innovation.
Daniel Reed
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ICER 2016, and Star Trek at 50
Mark Guzdial reports on promising papers, and Daniel Reed recalls a television show that continues to inspire innovation.
Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Star Trek has inspired generations to pursue science and technology careers, not a few of whom have transformed part of it into technological and commercial fact.
Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
First Impressions, Unexpected Benefits
Daniel Reed shares his experiences with Google Glass, while Chris Stephenson considers the kinds of support chapters of the Computer Science Teachers Association provide their members.
Mark Guzdial considers why computing education lags behind other sciences, while Daniel Reed weighs balancing immediate research needs against future uncertainty.
Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
Deferred Maintenance on the Future
Over-worked and sleep-deprived drivers are steering many of our vehicles of discovery on balding tires across potholed roads. Stripping away the metaphor, we are struggling to sustain appropriate investments in basic research infrastructure and facilities operations, and our dispirited researchers face ever-diminishing odds of research funding as they work to keep laboratories operational and students and post-doctoral research associates funded.
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution and fidelity, continued advances in semiconductor capabilities, and economic and political competition.
How often have you picked up a scholarly journal in a discipline far removed from your expertise, only to be stymied and mystified by the disciplinary jargon? We cannot all be polymaths, but as writers about our research in computing, we can do more to lower the disciplinary drawbridges and invite readers into our intellectual castle.
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