Europe sets out to squeeze every last drop of power from supercomputers

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has started a project to develop software capable of fully utilizing the capabilities of exascale and post-exascale systems. EuroHPC said the project, called Inno4scale, will research how to redesign and reimplement algorithms so that HPC applications will …

[hayzoos]

And the answer is 42.

[LybsterRoy]

Stage 1: Fire anyone who has been taught modern computing methods.

Stage 2: Find a few wrinklies who knew how to actually write good compact code that didn't just rely on an optimising compiler

Stage 3: Hire people who have never even seen a computer and get the wrinklies to teach them

Alternatively

Hire load of Python & web developers - it will crawl along but at least it will look pretty (for a given value of pretty)

[Wu Ming]

5mil

Covers the amount of paper bureaucrats use for printing emails. On the other hand ECMWF uses a DSL already for decoupling logic from HPC implementation. The article doesn’t add much to that.