Please discuss and arrive at summary opinions for the following concerns.
Applications and Capabilities. What are the applications (e.g., AI, scientific simulation, social applications) and/or capabilities (e.g., brain scale AI, long-timescale simulation, billion-entity applications) that primarily motivate discussion topic?
Scale. What is the scale of these capabilities? Is this a 2x increase in capability or a 100x increase?
Challenges. What are the major scientific/engineering challenges that are related to this topic that we need to address to achieve these capabilities?
Opportunities and Emerging Technologies. What are the major opportunities and research directions that can shed light on this topic? For example, are there new massive datasets and workloads? Are there new algorithmic frameworks? Are there new programming languages or systems? Are there new hardware designs?
Scope. Which of these challenges and opportunities are wholly new? Which are evidenced with existing applications and platforms at the current scale of their capabilities?
Risks: What are the main threats to success for research? How do we hedge against them?
Intellectual Merits. How will investigating these research opportunities and directions advance our knowledge and understanding of the application and/or disciplines?
Interdisciplinary Research. What are the needs and opportunities for interdisciplinary research?
Broader Impacts. How investigate these search opportunities and directions benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes?