TU Vision 2025+: Vortragsreihe 2015

TU Vision 2025+ lädt im Jänner zu Diskussionen mit Randal E. Bryant, Lorenz Lassnigg und Henri Van Damme ein. Jänner 2015: "The Future of High Performance Computing" - Am Donnerstag, 15. Jänner 2015, 17:30 Uhr wird Randal E. Bryant, Professor für Computer Science an der Carnegie Mellon Universität, über "The Future of High Performance Computing" diskutieren. Computer technology has become pervasive in all aspects of our society in part because computers keep getting more powerful, both in how fast they run and in how much data they can store and process. The tremendous progress in semiconductor technology has given us smartphones with processing capability that far exceed that of the world's largest supercomputers from 40 years ago. Meanwhile, supercomputers and other large-scale systems have also benefitted from improved technology, reaching the ability to perform petaflops (10^15 floating-point operations per second) and to manage petabytes (10^15 bytes) of data. Such machines are vital for tasks such as predicting climate change and for powering Internet search engines.