Dr. Richard S. Segall is Professor of Computer & Information Technology at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, AR. He holds BS and MS in mathematics, MS in operations research and statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and PhD in operations research form University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has served on the faculty of Texas Tech University, University of Louisville, University of New Hampshire, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and West Virginia University.
His publications have appeared in journals including International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (IJITDM), International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences (IJIDS), Applied Mathematical Modelling, *Kybernetes: International Journal of Cybernetics, Systems and Management Science, and Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS). He has book chapters in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Handbook of Computational Intelligence in Manufacturing and Production Management, Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies, Encyclopedia of Business Analytics & Optimization, and Encyclopedia of Information Science & Technology. [*Kybernetes is the official journal of the UNESCO recognized, World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and The Cybernetics Society.]
His research interests include data mining, text mining, web mining, database management, and mathematical modeling, and supercomputing applications. His research has been funded by U.S. Air Force, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI), and Arkansas Science & Technology Authority (ASTA). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM), International Journal of Data Science (IJDS), The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, and The Open Medical Informatics Journal.
He is a member of the Arkansas Center for Plant-Powered Production (P3), recipient of Session Best Paper awards at the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) conferences, and served as Local Arrangements Chair of the 2010 MidSouth Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Conference. He is co-editor of book titled Visual Analytics of Interactive Technologies: Applications to Data, Text and Web Mining published in 2011 by IGI Global, and is nearing completion of an edited book titled Research and Applications in Global Supercomputing to be published by IGI Global in 2015.
This talk will summarize research of Dr. Segall that pertains to an overview of the use of supercomputers around the world for multi-disciplines ranging from computational biology to data enabled social sciences. Supercomputing is a contemporary solution to enhance the speed of calculations in nanoseconds.
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontlines of current processing capacity and speed of calculations. First introduced in the 1960s, the supercomputers of the 1970s used only few processors, and in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear. By the end of the 20th century supercomputers were massively parallel computing systems composed of tens of thousands of processors. In contrast, supercomputers of the 21st century can use over 100,000 processors including those with graphic capabilities.
Supercomputers are used today for highly-intensive calculation tasks for projects such as quantum physics, weather forecasting, molecular modeling, and physical simulations. Supercomputers can be used for simulations of airplanes in wind tunnels, detonations of nuclear weapons, splitting electrons, and helping researchers study how drugs combat the swine flu virus.
This talk will discuss applications and current challenges of supercomputing across multiple domains of computational science including bioinformatics, nuclear power, renewable energy, and also include topics such as programming paradigms in high performance computing, steganography, encoding as inverse data mining, cloud computing, the leadership needed for supercomputer administration, and the philosophical logic entailed.
Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, is as of November 2013 the world’s new No. 1 system (Top500, 2013) with a performance of 33.86 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 42nd edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The list was announced November 18, 2013 during the opening session of the 2013 Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in Denver, Colorado USA.
The Indian government has stated that it has committed about $940 million to develop what could become the world’s fastest supercomputer by 2017, one that would have a performance of 1 exaflop which is about 61 times faster than today’s fastest computers. [http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-17/hardware/33901529_1_first-supercomputers-petaflop-fastest-supercomputer].
