At the Yuval Na'eman workshop conference, Dedi Perlmutter said that alongside civilian capabilities such as the development of new drugs and the prediction of unusual climate phenomena and natural disasters, supercomputing gives countries first-rate strategic capabilities in the information age in which we live
Dedi Perlmutter, senior vice president of the Intel global company, participated today in the conference of the Yuval Na'eman workshop for science, technology and security led by Prof. Col. (Retd.) Yitzhak Ben Israel. The conference on "supercomputing" was held at Tel Aviv University with the participation of experts from Israel and abroad and executives in the global computer industry.
During the conference, Perlmutter said that alongside civilian capabilities such as the development of new drugs and the prediction of unusual climate phenomena and natural disasters, supercomputing gives countries first-rate strategic capabilities in the information age in which we live. Therefore, the fact that China is currently a leader in the field of supercomputing, led the United States to place the issue at the top of the strategic priority scale.
Among the other speakers at the conference was Eyal Veldman, president and CEO of Mellanox, who added that Israel is at a significant gap from the rest of the world when it comes to supercomputing capabilities, and that reducing the gap is an issue of first and foremost national importance: "Supercomputing is a critical issue due to its direct impact on the field of cyber warfare. Today, for example, it is possible to paralyze an entire country by taking over the electricity infrastructure. A supercomputer can prevent this and its cost is relatively low - with 10 million dollars you can build a computer that will be among the 100 most powerful in the world."
Prof. General (Retd.) Ben Israel added that "in the last twenty years we have been in the information age, where computers are so critical that they have become goals in themselves and today we can talk about an entire field called cyber warfare. Supercomputing ability is of great importance to this field, as stated in the framework of the recommendations of the National Committee for Cyber Warfare, which I chaired, whose conclusions were accepted by the Prime Minister."
