A seminar with Jack Dongarra and Satoshi Matsuoka organized on high performance computing

A seminar on High Performance Computing (HPC) is organized at Toulouse INP-ENSEEIHT (amphi B00), on Wednesday, June 22 from 5:00 pm. On this occasion, two internationally renowned scientists, Jack DONGARRA and Satoshi MATSUOKA, will host conferences to put high-performance computing into perspective in the future, at a time when supercomputers will have the capacity to perform a billion billion calculations every second.

High performance computing in the exascale era

After the announcement of the first supercomputer capable of achieving Exaflop performance (i.e. 10^18 operations per second), researchers and practitioners of high performance computing are facing significant challenges. These challenges are related to the efficient use of such computing power to accelerate numerical simulations in many fields (such as physics, chemistry or economics) or massive data analysis and artificial intelligence applications. Modern supercomputers draw their power from extreme parallelism (up to millions of cores) and specialized processing units such as GPUs. These technological trends are having a major impact on the design and development of numerical algorithms and software, and are fueling research in high-performance computing to tackle previously unsolvable problems.

A prestigious seminar

This event, focused on the current and future landscape of high performance computing and its applications, will be opened with two seminars.

  • The first, titled “An Overview of High Performance Computing and Future Requirements” will be presented by Professor Jack DONGARRA of the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home of Frontier, currently ranked the world’s first fastest supercomputer. Jack DONGARRA is the recipient of the 2021 ACM Turing Award for “pioneering concepts and methods that have led to world-changing computations.“
  • The second seminar, entitled “Life with and after Fugaku — Exascale and Beyond” will be presented by Professor Satoshi MATSUOKA, director of the Riken Center for Computational Science, which hosts Fugaku, currently ranked the second fastest supercomputer in the world.

The seminars will be followed by a round table discussion between the two speakers and experts from academia and industry. IRIT participates in the organizing committee of this event with N7 Developpement, INPT, ANITI and Cerfacs. Participation to the event is free but registration is required at the following link : https://my.weezevent.com/hpc-seminar-panel-discussion