big trends
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