High-performance computing at a crossroads

Ewa Deelman¹, Jack Dongarra^{2

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4}, Bruce Hendrickson⁵, Amanda Randles⁶, Daniel Reed⁷, Edward Seidel⁸, Katherine Yelick⁹

Affiliations

¹ Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA.
² Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
⁴ Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁵ Computing Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁷ Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁸ Office of the President, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.
⁹ Department of Electical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Ewa Deelman et al. Science. 2025.

. 2025 Feb 21;387(6736):829-831.

doi: 10.1126/science.adu0801. Epub 2025 Feb 20.

Ewa Deelman¹, Jack Dongarra^{2

3

4}, Bruce Hendrickson⁵, Amanda Randles⁶, Daniel Reed⁷, Edward Seidel⁸, Katherine Yelick⁹

¹ Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA.
² Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
⁴ Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁵ Computing Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁷ Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁸ Office of the President, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.
⁹ Department of Electical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Abstract

Long-term plans and comprehensive vision are needed.