How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra
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Summary
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to be as influential as the Internet, impacting all areas of life and work, says Jack Dongarra, a US computer scientist who has contributed to HPC (high-performance computing) software.
While AI will aid scientific discovery and make it more efficient, quantum computing is still in its infancy and has been oversold, according to Dongarra, who cautions that expectations need to be managed and that AI has already been through such a ‘winter’.
China is developing its own technology and has world-class supercomputers, but its systems are difficult to assess as the country does not publish information about its hardware, he revealed.
The US restricts computing from being sold to China, but there is an unofficial pathway for systems to find their way into the country, Dongarra revealed.
In the future, software development may be led by AI, with humans using natural language to prompt systems to write code, he forecast.
