HPC Trends: WHAT WILL THEY DO TO US NEXT?

This talk will describe some of the trends in the base technologies used in HPC, and how these trends will affect HPC developers and users.  The two biggest developments are multicore processors (where Moore’s Law has become Moore’s Cores!) and accelerators (the use of GPUs, FPGAs and other specialized ASICs for general purpose computing).  After listening to the talk, perhaps the audience will be better armed to ask probing questions of their computer suppliers and application developers.