Present and future supercomputer architectures

Jack Dongarra

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Abstract

In last 25 years, the field of scientific computing has undergone rapid change -- we have experienced a remarkable turnover of technologies, architectures, vendors, and the usage of systems. Despite all these changes, the long-term evolution of performance seems to be steady and continuous. The acceptance of parallel systems not only for engineering applications but also for new commercial applications especially for database applications emphasized different criteria for market success such as stability of system, continuity of the manufacturer and price/performance. Due to these factors and the consolidation in the number of vendors in the market hierarchical systems build with components designed for the broader commercial market are currently replacing homogeneous systems at the very high end of performance. Clusters build with components of the shelf also gain more and more attention and today have a dominant position in the Top500. In this talk we will look at the some of the existing and planned high performance computer architectures and look at the interconnections schemes they are using. This talk will look at a number of different high performance computing architectures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationParallel and Distributed Processing and Applications - 2nd International Symposium, ISPA 2004, Proceedings
EditorsJiannong Cao, Laurence T. Yang, Minyi Guo, Francis Lau
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1
Number of pages1
ISBN (Print)9783540241287
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2004 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: Dec 13 2004Dec 15 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3358 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2004
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period12/13/0412/15/04

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