What Supercomputing Will Be Like in the Coming Years

Abstract

This chapter is an abridged sort of “vision statement” on what supercomputing will be in the future. The main thrust of the argument is that most of the problem lies in the trafficking of data, not the computation. There needs to be a worldwide effort to put into place a means to move data efficiently and effectively. Further, there likely needs to be a fundamental shift in our model of computation where the computation is stationary and data moves to movement of computation to the data or even as the data is moving.