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A webinar on “supercomputing and exascale architectures” was organized by the department of electronics and communication, PA college of engineering, Mangalore, in association with department of training and placement, under the aegis of IEEE student branch on 27- 05-2021, 11.30 am onwards. The webinar was held on google meet platform and the event witnessed the participation of more than 200 people.

The program started as per the schedule. Mss. Aleemath Arshana, student, PA college of engineering, mastered the ceremony, Miss G. Nafisa Mashitha, student, PA college of engineering, welcomed the gathering, introduction and felicitation of guest by Miss. Shareifa Nimrah, student, PA college of engineering, Dr. Ramiz MK, principal, PA college of engineering, delivered the inaugural address, emphasizing the need and scope of this webinar. Also he urged all the participants to utilize this opportunity to learn new skills.

DR. Saif Abrar, Advisory systems engineer, IBM, was introduced as the guest of this webinar. He, in his introductory address, appreciated the IEEE student branch and department of electronics and communication for their committed efforts in organizing this webinar.

The presentation started by briefing out the need of new architectures in compute, network, storage, etc, explained about how IBM has been working with partners like NVIDIA and MELLANOX to achieve the new architectures, emphasized about “SUMMIT the supercomputer”, its capabilities, its massive bandwidth, its capacity to ingest and analyze the large data sets, introduced the participants about the new chip-off era, like GPU’s and FPGA’s. The webinar then illustrated how china is planning the first exascale supercomputer by 2020, how U.S Department of Energy and Intel announced the first “exaFLOP” high performance supercomputer by 2022/2023.

Finally, the webinar gave the introduction to open cloud-based platforms like open POWER research facility and SUPERVESSEL to develop GPU optimized power applications.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks by Miss. Asna, student, PA College of engineering.