Chicago Humanities Festival :Ian Foster - Big Computation,Bigger Knowledge
Single computers with 100,000 processors, research teams that span the
globe, online access to more data than is contained in the Library of
Congress. Such developments are transforming how knowledge is generated
and used. Foster, with the Computation Institute, Argonne National
Laboratory and professor at the University of Chicago, illustrates the
implications of these trends with descriptions and demonstrations of
relevant projects at the University and Argonne, including the world’s
fastest supercomputer for open science; grid computing for worldwide
resource federation and collaboration; and massive data sets from
political science, astrophysics, and neuroscience.
Presented
in partnership with the University of Chicago and as part of the annual
Karla Scherer Endowed Programs for the University of Chicago.