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designing new materials and discovering new drugs; and in cosmology and astrophysics, understanding dark matter. HPC also provides solutions to complex problems (such as understanding the organization and functioning of the human brain, developing new treatments based on personalized medicine, and predicting and managing the effects of climate change).

In industry, HPC paves the way for new businesses and innovative applications in high-added-value areas (such as manufacturing and engineering, particularly automotive and aeronautical engineering, oil and gas exploration, bioengineering and mo-

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC, also known as supercomputing) is indispensable in the new global data economy. The dramatic increase in the volume and variety of big data is creating new possibilities for sharing knowledge, carrying out scientific research, doing business, and developing public policies.

In almost every scientific discipline, researchers are using complex HPC modeling and simulation techniques and big data analytics approaches to answer fundamental questions and make new discoveries and breakthroughs. Representative examples include: in biology and the life sciences, understanding the dynamics of biomolecules and proteins and genome sequencing and genome assembly; in materials science and pharmaceutics, Toward a European Exascale Ecosystem: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

DOI: 10.1145/3312567

BY THOMAS SKORDAS