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The pinnacle of computing performance is building the fastest computer in the world. Advances in high-performance computing enable scientists and engineers to perform new ground-breaking research with every new generation of supercomputer in important fields like: renewable energy, climate prediction, drug development, genetics and weather prediction. Every field of science and engineering (and all that entails to the welfare of the inhabitants of our planet) benefit from having faster computational resources available. The huge impact that these machines can make in our everyday lives and futures is well known, and countries around the globe compete in this arena and view it as being a vital part of their national (as well as global) interests to continually push the frontier forward on building the world’s fastest computers. This chapter looks at the challenges that lie ahead in terms of getting to Exascale (10^18 operations per second) computers and beyond and how critical it is to find solutions that enable more computing speed at ever lower costs in energy per operation. |
