Digital Convergence

High-Performance Computing has recently been challenged by the advent of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence has become rather popular in the last years and has claimed some success in solving relevant scientific problems in a variety of fields. In this paper we will look at the question of whether these technologies are mutually exclusive or whether they complement each other. We will argue that High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence are two technologies that work together well. We will further argue that they are complemented by the Internet of Things which helps to create a concept that we want to call Digital Convergence. We will furthermore explore, how this Digital Convergence already today shapes the future of computer simulation. We will finally point at some new types of problems that will benefit from this Digital Convergence.