Description:

Both established and emerging companies have long provided products and services which make HPC effective and usable for weather, water and climate applications. The very nature of their business requires that they stay well-informed of customer needs and emerging technologies to ensure they deliver products and solutions most effective in helping solve the often complex and challenging problems HPC users face. Industry perspectives on new architectures and capabilities are therefore often enlightening on what the future holds and where trends of the overall HPC market are heading. To gain insight into these future directions, this session welcomes talks from representatives of industry and research organizations advancing the state of the art in high performance computing, with an emphasis on future directions that will benefit weather, water and climate applications. Talks can address advances in overall system architectures, advances in components such as processors, accelerators, interconnects, memory, and storage, software advances, cloud computing, or other evolving and emerging market-based priorities.