White papers

On this page you will find EXDCI White papers in the tables below:

Title

THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING: WILL IT BE QUANTUM COMPUTING?

Abstract

Since the beginning of mankind and the arithmetic invention, increasing our capacity to compute has been one of the objectives of humans. We have just witnessed an unprecedent exponential growth of this capacity in the last 50 years with the development of the CMOS3 technology. For almost the same investment, you can today perform 30 million more operations than in 1970. We can speculate that this growth with your ability to digitalize information has been the engine of the acceleration of innovation observed during the 1990-2020 period.

However, this technology will not continue to deliver the same increase of our computing capacity. This paper aims to study new options that could take over and especially to look at the potential of quantum computing that has been heralded as the next generation of computing.

To position the new options, we first go back to the relationship between computing and mathematical concepts and then give a quick overview of the current computing technology. New potential computing technologies are suggested before a more in depth analysis of the quantum computing ideas is presented with both the theoretical models and the current achievements. This leads us to propose a framework to assess the potential of new computing options. In conclusion, we propose some research priorities to sustain the growth of our computing capacity that could be essential to drive future innovations.

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Title

FUTURE HPC TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

This white paper presents first why is it mandatory to look for new HPC technologies. After a short presentation of the international landscape, we review the research options that could sustain the development of HPC. This analysis is the result of a work organized by EXDCI-2 to connect the HPC communities with the European electronics and photonics experts.

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Title

EUROPEAN HPC TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECTS

Abstract

 The objective of this white paper is to present the results or the on-going work of the first HPC technology projects initiated within the Horizon 2020 programme, namely within calls FET-HPC-2014, 2016 and 2017. We have also analysed the projects’ impact on the application domain.

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