TY - GEN
T1 - An overview of high performance computing and challenges for the future
AU - Dongarra, Jack
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile-time and run-time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run-time environment variability will make these problems much harder. We will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures.
AB - In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile-time and run-time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run-time environment variability will make these problems much harder. We will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58349115008&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-92859-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-92859-1_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58349115008
SN - 3540928588
SN - 9783540928584
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
BT - High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2008 - 8th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 8th International Conference on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR 2008
Y2 - 24 June 2008 through 27 June 2008
ER -