Rolf Aschenbrenner received a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering in 1986 and an M.Sc. in physics in 1991 from the University of Giessen. In 1994, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin, where he is currently Head of the System Integration & Interconnection Technologies department and Deputy Director of the Institute. He has served on various committees, and he received the IEEE CPMT David Feldman Award in 2013.
Over the next ten years, major progress needs to be made in the area of conventional computing in order to keep pace with the requirements of new applications. High Performance Computing (HPC) is one option to amplify the capabilities of…
