Road to Exascale * 1. Which country or continent would you rate most effective in their current exascale efforts? Japan China US Europe None Other, please specify: * 2. Which country or continent do you think will build the first exascale computer? US China Europe Japan None Other, please specify: * 3. How confident are you that the European approach to solving the exascale challenge will result in an actual exascale system? Very confident Confident Moderately confident Unsure Not confident * 4. What level of co-design is required for building such an exascale-ready system? Full integration across the whole hardware / software / application stack Integration across key layers of hardware / software / application stack Some integration No integration, please specify why: * 5. How confident are you that the European approach to solving the exascale challenge will result in exascale-enabled European applications and software? Very confident Confident Moderately confident Unsure Not confident * 6. How significant is solving the following challenges for the success of future exascale platforms? (Please rate on the scale below ranging from not important to extremely important.) not important extremely important I/O I/O not important I/O I/O I/O I/O extremely important Resiliency Resiliency not important Resiliency Resiliency Resiliency Resiliency extremely important Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency not important Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency extremely important Programmability Programmability not important Programmability Programmability Programmability Programmability extremely important Scalability Scalability not important Scalability Scalability Scalability Scalability extremely important * 7. Which country or continent do you think Europe should collaborate with over exascale developments? (You may choose more than one option!) US Japan China None (only internal European collaboration favoured) Other, please specify: * 8. How important are the following aspects for future exascale endeavours? Please rank! 1 2 3 4 5 Memory technologies 1 2 3 4 5 Interconnect technologies 1 2 3 4 5 Storage technologies 1 2 3 4 5 Programming paradigms 1 2 3 4 5 Algorithms * 9. What will happen first? Flying to Mars First sustained Exaflop on a real-world scientific application First commercial quantum computer First commercial power plant based on nuclear fusion * 10. Which country do you come from? Please state: Fertig
