National Exascale Day

National Exascale Day, October 18 (10), commemorates the scientists and researchers who make breakthrough contributions in medicine, materials science, energy, and elsewhere with the support of some of the world's fastest supercomputers.

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We like to say that National Exascale Day honors those who keep asking what if, why not, and what's next — with the advanced technology to get the answers. We like to say that with the modern technology to get the answers, we can answer the questions.

This era in technology will have a major effect on virtually every facet of our daily lives. Anything from healthcare and manufacturing to finding new energy sources and the universe's origins will be affected by the change. Exascale is described as a quintillion computations per second. To put an example, if all 7.7 billion people on earth each completed one calculation per second takes over four years. A quintillion computation can be completed in 1 second by an exascale computer.

So what, you may ask?

The "so what" is that science discovers and innovates in less time, resulting in positive outcomes sooner rather than later. More people are surviving cancer than ever before. Populations deplete fewer natural resources from the earth.. More people are eating healthier food on their tables.. And so on.

How to observe national exascale day?

Celebrate the geeks, gurus, and geniuses who are answering the big questions and changing the world. Here are a few tips to get you off the ground: Here are a few suggestions to get you off the ground:

Hug a scientist
Tell the world how your company, blog, and social media channels, how your company thinks the effects of Exascale computation on the future
For lunch, have a scientist or science teacher
Sponsoring a science fair helps keep science alive in your classrooms

To post on social media, use the hashtag #NationalExascaleDay.. To learn even more, keep reading to learn more.

For your curious-er types, we've included a little more detail below.

Fun factoids

Exascale computation means a computer that can do at least one exaflops (a billion) calculations per second
Over Niagara Falls, it would take 40,000 years for one quintillion gallons of water to leak
The Milky Way galaxy is 1 quintillion kilometers wide, and it is 1 quintillion kilometers wide
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, but to reach one quintillion would require 10,000 people
Exascale computers will be about a million times more powerful than the average laptop we use every day

A historical glimpse into the upcoming inflection point

The introduction of the Internet enabled industry and industry to gather data like never before. Fast forward, data growth continues to propel companies of all sizes to data-intensive computing and digital transformation. AI, analytics, IoT, simulations, and modeling workloads are all converging into one business-critical workflow, which must be both efficient and in real-time.

Organizations are asking entirely new questions as a result of data growth, converging workloads, and the need for digital transformation. And they need new capabilities to answer those questions. Exascale computation completely rethinks how technology and people work together to answer today's most important questions and even larger ones tomorrow.

What makes now an exascale eraTM??

Exascale is more than a speed record or a system size. Exascale is new workloads pushed by new questions that are intermixed with new compute capabilities to produce a significant technological shift. It is a major technological shift.

The national exascale day in history is the first national exascale day in the United States

"What if, why not, and what's next?" — a Hewlett Packard Enterprise firm, founded National Exascale Day in 2019 to honor those who keep asking, "what if, why not, and what's next?" — with the advanced technology to get the answers. The day also marks the start of a new era of supercomputing that will result in breakthroughs in fields benefiting all of humankind..

Exascale FAQ

Q. What is the world's smallest computer?

A. In 2018, researchers at the University of Michigan developed a microcomputer measuring 0.3 x 0.3mm, about the size of a grain of salt. A. This is not the first time they've done it, and it is not the first time they've done it. They built the Michigan Micro Mote in 2015. The tiny device was designed to fit 2x2x4mm.

Q. What is a quintillion?

A. A quintillion can be written in a variety of ways: A. A quintillion can be written in a variety of ways: