Michael Turner, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Exponential thinking
Four exponentials:
- compute power
- storage capacity
- bandwidth
- sensors/capture (ccd)
previously intractable problems can be solved/addressed because of the advancement of these exponentials
distributed sensors to gather data, small and large scales
GEOSS, EOS NASA 24 sattelites, generating petabytes of data
LIGO
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
big science requires big collaborations
simulations
more, faster, complex
still nowhere near a sustainable infrastructure
unexpected consequences of esoteric, curiosity-driven research almost 100 years ago–let’s make sure that what we do enables this to keep occuring
