Eric Monchalin

EPI, France

Will HPC be a next decade disruptor, or will it be disrupted?

Abstract

Supercomputing is at the forefront to solve societal, academic, and business challenges such as climate change, energy, decarbonation, sustainability, smart everything (cities, mobility, agriculture, medicine, manufacturing and so on), and many others. Supercomputing thus plays an essential role for any continent, economical space or nation which wants to tackle these numerous challenges and strengthen its leadership and sovereignty. However, the future of its ecosystem is a daunting challenge. It has to overcome human and technology roadblocks to unlock its long-term potential, which includes, amongst others:
• Making scientific education and expertise great again,
• Fast energy transition to electricity foreshadowing a mismatch between supply and demand,
• Slowdown of Moore’s law,
• GPU trend favoring the performances of Artificial Intelligence workloads.
The European Union, with its long and strong history in mathematics and science, can draw on its own strengths to free itself from these obstacles. Relying on its EuroHPC Joint Undertaking initiative, it is developing long-term and sovereign supercomputing technologies that can compete on this worldwide market. These key ingredients will support the European Union to equip itself with a world-class supercomputing infrastructure during the course of the decade and beyond.

Biography

Eric Monchalin is Vice-President, Head of Machine Intelligence at Eviden and Chair of the European Processor Initiative. At Eviden, he is responsible for creating and finalizing new technological and business initiatives for the Big Data and Security Global Business Line. His career has been built on numerous R&D positions in the areas of embedded systems, communication, storage, AI, edge and high-performance computing. He is a technology-minded person who has a wide range of skills and technological knowledge and is fully focused on turning customers’ wishes into reality.

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