The Future of Scientific Computing

Hendrickson, Bruce A.

Title: The Future of Scientific Computing

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Attempts to predict the future have a long and inglorious history. Also, cultures from time immemorial have devoted their very best technologies to the task, utilizing apparatuses such as tea leaves, crystal balls, and animal entrails. But as Niels Bohr famously observed, “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”

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Hendrickson, Bruce A. ^[1]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-10-04

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1432968

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-739684
Journal ID: ISSN 1557-9573

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: SIAM News

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 50; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1557-9573

Publisher:: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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