Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Supercomputing
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A recent OpEd in the New York Times caught my attention – The First Church of Robotics by Jaron Lanier, a self-described “computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author,” who did pioneering research in Virtual Reality in the 1980s. I have met Lanier, and a few years ago participated in a panel on Virtual Worlds…
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Recently, some colleagues were talking about the upcoming LinuxCon 2010 in Boston – “The Linux Foundation's annual technical conference that provides and unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux.” Hearing about this conference brought me back to 1999, when we started a number of studies that culminated in the announcement of the new…
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Isaac Newton laid down the foundations for what we now call classical mechanics with the publication of his Principia Mathematica in 1687, where his Laws of Motion, where first articulated. Ever since, our scientific understanding of the world around us has been based on classical mechanics, – “a set of physical laws governing and mathematically…
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Supercomputing has been a major part of my education and career, from the late 1960s when I was doing atomic and molecular calculations as a physics doctorate student at the University of Chicago, to the early 1990s when I was general manager of IBM's SP family of parallel supercomputers. The performance advances of supercomputers in…
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On October 1 and 2 IBM held its second global Smarter Cities conference in New York City. I subsequently wrote about the excellent talk, Great Expectations for US Healthcare, given by Dr. Denis Cortese, CEO and President of the Mayo Clinic on the first day of the conference. The next day, there were break-out discussions…
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Last week, the US Department of Energy announced the first supercomputer to achieve a petaflop of sustained performance. It will be housed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine designed and built by IBM, is named Roadrunner, after New Mexico’s state bird. A petaflop is a million billion calculations per second,…
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One of the major forces for innovation in computing has been the acceleration of application run-times from minutes or hours to seconds or less, thus enabling them to become interactive. The whole nature of an application changes qualitatively and its value improves significantly when it is able to quickly respond to our every action and…
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The Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was just released. This list is compiled and published twice a year by a group of independent scientists in the US and Europe. IBM was very prominent in the Top500 list, with 6 out of the top 10 systems and 259 out of the top 500 systems. …
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Last week, I gave a keynote talk at the Internet Global Conference in Barcelona. I shared the keynote with Professor Mateo Valero from the Technical University of Catalonia, who is also the Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The theme of our talk was Innovation in IT and more specifically in supercomputing. I talked (in…