In this special SC10 edition of The Exascale Report, we talk with some of the leading thinkers on the provider side of HPC to get their view on the present and future of large scale computing.
Justin Rattner onstage at IDF 2010.
Does the U.S. need a national exascale initiative? Are DARPA’s extreme scale program and DOE’s exascale program complementary — or competitive?
And what about Moore’s Law? Is exascale needed because Moore’s law is coming to an end?
Want to get answers to the really hard questions? Then you need to go to the top. That’s just what we did. In this exclusive interview coordinated with insideHPC, The Exascale Report interviews Intel CTO Justin Rattner.
Special Multimedia Feature
OpEd: Andy Keane calls for Global Collaboration
by AndyKeane
Jen-Hsun, Andy Keane and Bob Sherbin on stage during the 2009 GPU Technology Conference.
Heterogeneous computing opens the door to so many possibilities in our quest for exascale. But the reality is, it’s not going to be easy.
The Exascale Report is proud to publish this global call for collaboration and cooperation from NVIDIA’s Andy Keane.
OpEd: Steve Wallach on the Practicality of an EFLOPS System by 2020
by SteveWallach
Convey's Steve Wallach
Legendary, intelligent, colorful, outspoken, versatile, resilient.
Just a few words that people have used to describe Steve Wallach. Steve was recently named a Rock Star of HPC by insideHPC and, in this article, Steve addresses the practicality of getting to an exaFLOPS-capable system by the end of this decade.
Intel Adds Leadership to Euro Exascale Efforts
by Mike Bernhardt
The Exascale Report is among the first news outlets to report that Intel has added key leadership staff to its European exascale efforts. Karl Solchenbach joined Intel on November 1 as new director for the European Exascale Labs, replacing Richard Dracott who had been acting in that position. And Marie Christine Sawley will be joining Intel on December 1st as the new director for the Exascale Computing Research Center in Versailles, reporting to Karl.
Read on to find out more about the personalities shaping Intel's large-scale computing future.
Sandia Researchers Awarded Exascale Grants
by Staff
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science announced in October that it has awarded $2.6 million in grants to four Sandia National Laboratories researchers for computational research.
The three year grants will fund technologies that will be needed to build and use a future exaFLOPS computers.
DOE's Koonin Focuses on Leadership as Chinese Accelerate Efforts
by Staff
In late October the New York Times reported that China has built a machine capable of 2.5 petaFLOPS. The Tianhe-1A supercomputer is now the world’s most powerful, 40% faster than the fastest American machine located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Of course this wasn't a surprise, and the DOE has been publicly positioning itself for this eventuality since at least June when Steven Koonin, the Undersecretary for Science in the DOE, articulated the need for the US to maintain its world leadership position in supercomputing. And since China's announcement, Koonin and the DOE have been busy positioning themselves as the real forefront of large scale computing.
Coming to SC10?
If you are attending SC10 in New Orleans, be sure to check out:
Exascale Computing Will (Won't) Be Used by Scientists by the End of This Decade?, a panel featuring Marc Snir, William Gropp, Peter Kogge, Burton Smith, Horst Simon, Bob Lucas, Allan Snavely, and Steve Wallach.
3:30 - 5:00PM in Room 384-385 (more info here)
Join the Discussion
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