A Personal Journey through Scientific Computing

How Scientific Computing started? How it has been evolved? Where it stands now? Where it will be in the near future? What machines have been used? How it influenced the evolution of these machines? How much the programming languages have changed? What computing/programming paradigms have been considered? Is there a future in it?

This talk concerns the author’s journey through the scientific computing saga.

From punch cards to exascale computing. From subroutines to libraries to modules and to services, From serial computing, to vector computing to shared and distributed memory parallel computing.

From Linkpack and to Itpack, to Lapack and of course to Ellpack and //Ellpack and the such.

It has been a very exiting journey and Elias has been my advisor all the way from the beginning till now.