Supercomputing for Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Neil Ashton – distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA and podcast host interviewing luminary engineers and scientists in the fields of CAE, HPC and ML – will serve as moderator for the panel discussion on the theme of the conference. Neil will engage scientists Florina Ciorba (University of Basel, Switzerland), Sally Ellingson (University of Kentucky, US), James Hetherington (University College London, UK), and Hindumathi Palanisamy (World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland) in a discussion exploring opportunities and challenges for supercomputing to become a key catalyst towards sustainable development of our society.
The panel session will explore how supercomputing can be utilized to help address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which underpin the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN member states in 2015. Examples of how supercomputing is already being used in this regard include its application to:
- Renewable energy
- Drug discovery
- Medical device design
- Climate modelling
- Ocean modelling
- Nuclear fusion
- Desalination
Additional information can be found here.