The central theme of SC21 focused on how high-performance computing (HPC) is expanding into non-traditional disciplines, including data-intensive science and real-world crisis response.

The conference featured significant research on using supercomputers for COVID-19 modeling, including the Gordon Bell Special Prize-winning work on viral droplet spread. Key Research Areas

A "proper essay" on this archive would typically analyze one of the following technical tracks: CHPC returns to smaller, hybrid SC21 Conference