S cience is often the best and sometimes the only means to address health, environmental, economic and other challenges. Debate with the public about research, its results and possible applications ensures a rational, informed process to find sustainable solutions. However, there is a conundrum at the heart of science communication, outreach activities, public or upstream engagement and Respons...

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High-performance computing (HPC) achieved an astonishing three orders of magnitude performance improvement per decade for decades, thanks to hardware technology scaling resulting in exponential the rate floating point executions, though slowing most recent. Captured Top500 list, this evolution cascaded through software stack, triggering changes at all levels, including redesign numerical linear...