Please join us for this interesting presentation by our partner organization the Columbus Chapter of the ACM:

The Past, Present, and Future of Supercomputing
by
Paul Buerger

Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM

Location:
Upper Arlington Main Library, Meeting Room A
2800 Tremont Road, Upper Arlington 43221

Abstract:
Whether you call it supercomputing or high-performance computing or high-end computing, it is an interesting niche of the computing universe. This talk involves a casual stroll through some interesting computer hardware of the past forty or so years with some speculation about future directions.

The principal application has been technical computing. That is, computation in the interest of science and engineering. Large computing systems have been used in finance for a few years and we have seen where that led.

Early supercomputers were just the fastest systems around. However, from early on parallelism has played a major role. From vectors to clusters, parallelism at some level has been involved. Currently, supercomputers consist of thousands of PC's or game computers. Future supercomputers may consist of millions of elements designed for cell phones or other hand-held devices.

Dr. Buerger has been involved with computational science and scientific computing for over forty years. For much of that time he was supporting scientific researchers in his roles in technical support at Ohio Supercomputer Center. He has served COCACM in several roles.

Reservations Requested
To make a reservation send e-mail to cocacm@acm.org by Wednesday, December 16.