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Life at the supercomputing top. - Do you have a hard-to-answer question? The Summit, Sierra, Trinity, Frontier, and Aurora supercomputers are built to tackle it. Summit tops the petaflop heap – at least for now. But Frontier and Aurora are catching up as they take aim at a new performance benchmark called exascale.

So why do we need all this processing power? From climate modeling to personalized medicine, find out why the super-est computers are necessary to answer our biggest questions. But is the dark horse candidate, quantum computing, destined to leave classical computing in the dust?

Guests:

Katherine Riley https://www.alcf.anl.gov/staff-direct... - Director of Science, Argonne National Laboratory

Jack Wells https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/ja... - Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory National Center for Computational Sciences

Katie Bethea https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/directory/s... - Communications Team Lead, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jeffrey Hawkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ha... - Technologist and neuroscientist. Co-founder of Palm, Handspring and Numenta

Eleanor Rieffel https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/erief... - Mathematician, NASA Ames Research Center, and co-author of “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor,” published in Nature magazine
Segments:

Part 1: What is a supercomputer?
Part 2: What is FLOPS?
Part 3: Supercomputers and AI
Part 4: Quantum Supremacy

Descripción en español http://bigpicturescience.org/es/episo...

originally aired November 4, 2019

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