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Exascale Day is 10.18

LARGO, MD—Just outside of Washington, D.C. at BDPA™ Headquarters, our industry’s exascale era is well underway where BDPA™ Members worldwide and society begin to fully grasp the impacts of this remarkable technological achievement. The growth of artificial intelligence (Ai) only increases our need for leadership-class supercomputing.

Exascale is a measure of supercomputing performance refering to computing systems that perform at least 10 to the 18th power (1018) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). 

Exascale Day is celebrated on October 18th every year to honor scientists and researchers who use advanced computing to make breakthrough discoveries in energy, materials sciences, medicine, Ai’s large language models (LLMs), and greater weather prediction accuracy with the help of the world’s fastest supercomputers. It is also our day to embrace the impact of high-performance computing (HPC) at all levels. 

HP co-hosted an event with JEF and BDPA Student Members showcasing HP UNIX (HP-UX) operating system (OS) with new HP 9000 workstations in their lab. _______________________________
Photo © 1990 Marvin T. Jones & Associates for BDPA-DC and I+Plus Magazine

As early as 1990, BDPA™ Student Members participated in local site visits and lab presentations through programs provided by Joint Education Facilities (JEF) and mission-partners such as the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Dr. Jesse Bemley founded JEF in 1985 and successfully launched BDPA’s High School Computer Competition (HSCC) in 1986.

For one of their initial projects, student members developed an artificial intelligence (Ai) “Model of a Black Teenager” using Prolog schema hierarchies to emulate shopping mall habits of Black teens. They authored white papers which were published and subsequently presented during the association’s 12th annual technology conference (BDPACON ’90) in Washington, D.C.

HP and HPE have been mission partners with BDPA™ and JEF for over 30 years. At HPE, they see how exascale computing continues to change our world. Moreover, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are driving more innovation with new discoveries thus improving the way we live, work, and how companies thrive.

— Sources, photos, videos: HP, HPE, and BDPA™

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T

The International Conference for High Performance
Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

I am HPC • DENVER, CO • NOV 12–17

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