“Exascale Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Cancer”

The 1st R-CCS International Symposium 18 Feb,2019
"Exascale Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Cancer"

In this talk I'll give an update on the US Exascale Computing Initiative (ECI). The ECI is a national plan to develop and field multiple Exascale computing systems starting in 2021. In addition to developing systems the ECI is supporting the development of a broad collection of Exascale applications and software environments to support the mission of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the broad needs of the US research community. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based applications are emerging as important new drivers of advanced computing capabilities across many scientific disciplines. I'll discuss key "AI in Science" opportunities that will be enabled by Exascale systems and walk through some of the architectural, software and methods challenges. Finally, I will present an overview of the joint program of the DOE and the National Cancer Institute to apply Exascale computing to three Cancer research challenge problems (i.e. drug response prediction, RAS biology and understanding patient trajectories).

Rick L. Stevens
(Argonne National Laboratory/The University of Chicago)