Event
SC26 BoF: Analog Computing for Science: From Emerging Technologies to a Shared Research Agenda
At SC26, we submitted a proposal that is currently under review to host a Birds of a Feather session on Analog Computing for Science: From Emerging Technologies to a Shared Research Agenda. SC, as the annual meeting point of the supercomputing community, is the natural venue for this exchange: the challenges of analog HPC span hardware, software, and applications, and progress depends on input from exactly the mix of vendors, centers, and domain scientists that SC brings together. The session is deliberately interactive — brief state-of-the-art overviews up front, with the majority of the time devoted to open discussion with the community. We invite everyone working on, or curious about, unconventional computing in HPC to join us.
Abstract
Sustainably scaling supercomputing power in a post-Moore world is one of the field’s biggest challenges today. Analog computing is a promising but disruptive path forward. To make analog HPC a success, a holistic approach is required. This means embracing existing applications for lasting impact while rethinking hardware and software together across the supercomputing ecosystem. Our BoF is a step in this direction. It opens with brief overviews of the state of the art and focuses on an exchange with the SC community. Coverage is for the entire stack, spanning from hardware platforms and algorithmic questions to applications.
Contributors
- Dr. Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Dr. Johannes Gebert, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
- Dr. Suma George Cardwell, Sandia National Laboratories
- Prof. Sara Achour, Stanford University
- Prof. Josef Weidendorfer, Technical University Dresden
- Dr. Talya Vaknin, Lightsolver
- Dr. Michael Förtsch, Q.ANT GmbH
More information will follow once the proposal is accepted.