Exascale computing for research and the implications of quantum computing, AI and Net Zero

  • May 29, 2025 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • University of Edinburgh
Exascale computing for research and the implications of quantum computing, AI and Net Zero

The UK has provided a succession of increasingly powerful high-performance computing facilities for UK researchers for many years. Do recent developments in AI change what researchers might need in terms of high performance computing? What are the implications of any future provision of exascale computing of expected developments in quantum computing? And how can the environmental impact of exascale computing be reduced? As decisions on new investments in high performance computing come due, these are some of the issues we hope to explore in this event being organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This event is being held in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, which is the home of UK national high performance computing research systems such as ARCHER2, Cirrus and DiRAC-Tursa.

The Rt Hon the Lord Willetts FRS
Chair, The Foundation for Science and Technology [Chair]
Professor Mark Wilkinson
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Director of the DiRAC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Leicester
Ilana Wisby
CEO, Moth [TBC]
Professor Mark Parsons
Associate Dean for e-Research, College of Science & Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Professor Katherine Royse
Director, Hartree Centre, STFC [TBC]

University of Edinburgh