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Scientific Grand Challenges: Toward Exascale Supercomputing and Beyond.

Scientific frontiers--astrophysics, whole genome sequencing, tectonic modeling, and so on--demand faster and bigger computers to analyze an avalanche of data and advance our knowledge. A quest for answers to these grand scientific challenges is the main motivation behind developing and building exas...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 12 - 15
Main Author: Getov, Vladimir
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Nov2015
Subjects:
Supercomputers
Astrophysics
Nucleotide sequencing
Data analysis
Motivation (Psychology)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Scientific frontiers--astrophysics, whole genome sequencing, tectonic modeling, and so on--demand faster and bigger computers to analyze an avalanche of data and advance our knowledge. A quest for answers to these grand scientific challenges is the main motivation behind developing and building exascale supercomputers and beyond.