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A Story of Sustainable Supercomputing and the Role of Art in HPC
DescriptionPerformance. Power. Startup. Sculpture. Music. This might seem like a disparate set of topics to describe one person's research in HPC. PowerPack. The Green500. grano.la. SeeMore. The CSGenome. Do these artifacts help? Maybe not. If life is a journey, so is the story of my research. I can assure you that all the research topics and artifacts I've studied and created along the way have common roots in HPC's sustainability. Another commonality is that early on, some in our community deemed these topics or artifacts a waste of time and resources, a non-problem, soon to be made irrelevant, or further evidence that this researcher is losing his grip on reality. Impact. Impact. Impact. In this talk, I will share key research findings and outcomes that have proven the naysayers wrong over time. I will also describe the inspiration and genesis of the work and the connections among these seemingly incongruous research projects. The goal of every endeavor so far — and the journey is far from over — has been to create sustained change in the way HPC computes and to ensure broad audiences understand the importance of what we do and how it connects to their everyday lives. And, perhaps surprisingly to some, I owe much of the success to the arts.
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