Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind, then a supercomputer is a carbon fiber composite racing bicycle.

The price of innovation keeps rising, the talent is following the money, and many of the traditional players – companies and countries – are struggling to keep up.

The free ride from Dennard scaling is over; the von Neumann architecture is showing its age; and our hierarchical abstractions are now an intellectual box from which we must escape.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: big data, extreme computing, energy efficiency, and autonomous vehicles.

The brave new world of edge computing and big data has profound implications for the future of high-performance computing. Come to the edge!