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Myths and Legends in High-Performance Computing

• matt_d 4y ago
  - Myth 1: Quantum Computing Will Take Over HPC! - Myth 2: Everything Will Be Deep Learning! - Myth 3: Extreme Specialization as Seen in Smartphones Will Push Supercomputers Beyond Moore’s Law! - Myth 4: Everything Will Run on Some Accelerator! - Myth 5: Reconfigurable Hardware Will Give You 100X Speedup! - Myth 6: We Will Soon Run at Zettascale! - Myth 7: Next-Generation Systems Need More Memory per Core! - Myth 8: Everything Will Be Disaggregated! - Myth 9: Applications Continue to Improve, Even on Stagnating Hardware! - Myth 10: Fortran Is Dead, Long Live the DSL! - Myth 11: HPC Will Pivot to Low or Mixed Precision! - Myth 12: All HPC Will Be Subsumed by the Clouds!