“Bright Light: Computing Then, Now and To Be” by Prof Jack Dongarra

In this talk, we examine how high-performance computing has changed over the last 10 years and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile--time and run--time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run--time environment variability will make these problems much harder.  We will look at five areas of research that will have an important impact on the development of software and algorithms.

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Prof Dongarra received the 2021 A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and software, driving decades of advancements in computing performance and applications. He has also been honoured with the 2019 ACM/SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Prize and the 2020 IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award.