Foundation for Science & Technology: Exascale computing - implications of quantum computing, AI and net zero

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Foundation for Science & Technology: Exascale computing - implications of quantum computing, AI and net zero
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The UK has provided a succession of increasingly powerful high-performance computing facilities for UK researchers for many years. Do recent developments in AI change what researchers might need in terms of high performance computing? What are the implications of any future provision of exascale computing of expected developments in quantum computing? And how can the environmental impact of exascale computing be reduced? As decisions on new investments in high performance computing come due, these are some of the issues we hope to explore in this event being organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This event is being held in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, which is the home of UK national high performance computing research systems such as ARCHER2, Cirrus and DiRAC-Tursa.

Speakers:

  • Rt Hon Lord (David) Willetts FRS, Chair of the Foundation for Science and Technology [Chair]
  • Professor Mark Wilkinson, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Director of the DiRAC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Leicester
  • Professor Mark Parsons, Associate Dean for e-Research, College of Science & Engineering, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Katherine Royse, Director, Hartree Centre, STFC

Schedule:

17:30 - 18:00 Registration and Coffee18:00 - 19:30 Discussion event (Speaker presentations plus Q&A period)19:30 - 20:00 Drinks Reception20:00 Event concludes

Location: Room G.03, The Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT

This is the link to register, click here

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