High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), and Quantum Computing (QC) and communications offer immense opportunities for innovation and impact on society. Researchers in these areas depend on access to computing infrastructure, but these resources are in short supply and are typically siloed in support of their research communities, making it more difficult to pursue convergent and interdisciplinary research. Such research increasingly depends on complex workflows that require different resources for each stage. This paper argues that a more-holistic approach to computing infrastructure, one that recognizes both the convergence of some capabilities and the complementary capabilities from new computing approaches, be it commercial cloud to Quantum Computing, is needed to support computer science research.
翻译:高性能计算(HPC)、人工智能(AI)/海洋学习(ML)、量子计算(QC)和通信为创新和对社会产生影响提供了巨大的机会,这些领域的研究人员依赖计算机基础设施,但这些资源供应短缺,通常用于支持研究群体,因此更难进行集中和跨学科的研究,这种研究日益依赖于复杂的工作流程,每个阶段都需要不同的资源。 本文认为,计算机基础设施需要采用更加协调的方法,既要承认某些能力的趋同,又要承认新计算方法的补充能力,不管是商业云还是量子计算机,以支持计算机科学研究。