Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: exascale computing
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Research, Politics and Policy
Technical knowledge matters, but communication, empathy,and compromise are equally crucial and sometimes more important.
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In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico
The wide dynamic range of temporal and spatial scales of systems biology models, from picosecond first principles molecular dynamics to the geological timescales of environmental shifts, is a full employment act for computational scientists. In many ways, we are attempting to come full circle, from in vivo observations to in vitro experiments to holistic, in…
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Salishan, Exascale and Heterogeneous Multicore
This year, Adolfy Hoisie (LANL) asked me to give the after dinner presentation, which is normally the evening of the second day. An after dinner talk is always fraught with danger, as the desired attributes are brevity, humor, brevity and insight. Oh, and did I mention brevity? Such events are especially challenging when the after…