Can we keep building ever more powerful computers? Is there no limit? | Pete Beckman | TEDxUChicago

Can we keep building more powerful computers? And perhaps more importantly, can we teach them? Pete Beckman traces the history of computers and supercomputers and addresses how future technology can help tackle some of the world's biggest problems.

Pete Beckman is the co-director of the Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory Institute of Science and Engineering and is a recognized global expert in high-end computing systems.

He designs software and hardware architectures for the world’s largest supercomputers and leads the extreme-computing strategy at Argonne National Laboratory as director of the Argonne's Exascale Technology and Computing Institute. Supercomputers are used to address a wide range of science problems, including understanding the birth of the universe, designing more efficient wind turbines, studying the interplay between blood flow and cerebral aneurysms, and understanding climate change.

Pete joined Argonne in 2002, serving first as director of engineering and later as chief architect for the TeraGrid. From 2008 to 2010 he was the director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, where he led the Argonne team working with IBM on the design of Mira, a 10-petaflop Blue Gene/Q.

[MrLaTEchno]

How about all people food on the table? ....the people can't do wont do.Learn them Computers 360 degree type of thing

[steveba]

Your top ten problems is upside down. Overpopulation is directly/indirectly the cause of the other 9 on your list. Otherwise a good discussion