Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager of the Technical Computing Initiative for Intel's Data Center Group, joins us to discuss high performance computing (HPC). Damkroger joined Intel in December 2016 after 15 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a leading consumer of HPC technologies. In this interview, Damkroger talks about joining Intel to advocate for the world-changing potential of HPC, the convergence of HPC, big data analytics, and machine learning, and future opportunities that will be unlocked by exascale computing. To learn more about Damkroger's work, please visit https://intel.com/hpc and follow https://twitter.com/IntelHPC.