Logistics
- Event: Future Computing Community of Interest Meeting
- Agenda
- Date: August 5-6, 2019
- Location: NITRD NCO, 490 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Suite 8001, Washington, DC
- In-Person Attendees
Goal
The Future Computing (FC) Community of Interest Meeting will explore the computing landscape for the coming decade and beyond, along with emerging and future application drivers, to inform agencies and to identify potential opportunities as well as gaps. It will also examine new software concepts needed for the effective use of advances that come with the future computing systems to ensure that the federal government is poised to respond to unanticipated challenges and opportunities.
Rationale
There is much uncertainty in the HEC community as clock rate increases attributed to Moore’s law and Dennard are expected to end in the near future. The increase in feature count is currently slowing and will likely end within a few years. In this period of uncertainty, it is essential for the community to understand and embrace technologies coming to fruition in both the near- and long-term that provide a path forward for HEC in the absence of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling. The impact of data analytics (including the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning), involving the movement, manipulation and storage of significant amounts of data has had a disruptive effect on high-end computing as well. The public, academic and private sector all need to be prepared for these new computing modalities from a hardware, software and workforce perspective.
Keynotes and Plenary Speakers
- Day 1 Keynote: “Beyond Exascale: Playing the CMOS Endgame”, Steve Scott, Cray.
- Day 2 Keynote: “Future Computing Models, Technology in the 2030-2040 Horizon”, Mike Mayberry, Intel.
- Plenary Talks – The Future of Computing:
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- “The Path Beyond Moore’s Law: non von Neumann Architectures”, Thomas Sterling, Indiana University.
- “Delivering the Future of High-Performance Computing”, Mark Papermaster, AMD.
- “Seismic Shift: What’s Next in the Post-Moore, Post-ISA Era?”, Margaret Martonosi, Princeton.
Publications
- National Strategic Computing Initiative Update: Pioneering the Future of Computing, Fast Track Action Committee on Strategic Computing; Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee; Committee on Science and Technology Enterprise; National Science and Technology Council, November 14, 2019.
- Future Computing Community of Interest Meeting of August 5-6, 2019, Fast-Track Action Committee on Strategic Computing; Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee; Committee on Science and Technology Enterprise; National Science and Technology Council, September 9, 2019.
Reference Materials
- National Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Service Conference, RTI International.
- Transforming Science Through Cyberinfrastructure: NSF’s Blueprint for a National Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century, National Science Foundation.
- Federal Register Notice: 84 FR 32784, Notice of Community of Interest Meeting on Future Computing, National Science Foundation, July 09, 2019.
- Federal Register Notice: 84 FR 28338, Request for Information on Update to Strategic Computing Objectives, National Science Foundation, June 18, 2019.
- Extreme Heterogeneity 2018 – Productive Computational Science in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity: Report for DOE ASCR Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity, USDOE Office of Science (SC), December 3, 2018.
- National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Strategic Plan, Report prepared by The National Strategic Computing Initiative Executive Council, July 2016.