Wanted: Experts in Computing for Computational Science

The world is building more and more supercomputers, and collecting more and more data to analyze with them. But there is a serious shortage of people with the right skills in computing and computational science and engineering to use them:

“With the world’s fastest computers capable of processing quadrillions of calculations per second and the amount of data researchers generate growing by an order of magnitude each year, every field of science is turning to supercomputers to do new, innovative, data-intensive things: analyze genomes, simulate the evolution of dark matter, visualize the structure of proteins, and on and on. Supercomputers also offer a number of time- and money-saving opportunities for companies, which increasingly rely on these powerful machines to design everything from jets to sudsier laundry detergent.

“Yet, there is a significant barrier for companies that want to take advantage of these new machines: a lack of hardware engineers, software developers, and scientists with high-performance computing skills.”

[Read more at “Data Deluge Drives Demand” from Science Careers at the journal Science, and thanks to Prof. Lorena Barba for passing it along!]