Nerd Nite #26: Calculating 10^18 Results per Second

Wed, 09/09/2015 - 6:06pm

When: July 23, 2015 at Live! 102 S. First St.

The world of high performance computing is changing. Dave Strenski's talk will run through a short history of computing highlighting the different types of computations used in computing’s past, including vectorization, parallelization, accelerators, and reconfigurable computing. Starting from a historical perspective, this presentation builds to what is needed for the future to reach exa-scale (10^18 floating point operation per second) computing. It also covers the types of applications that need exa-scale computing and the merging of high performance computing and data analytics.