[Amath-seminars] Talk by Rob Schreiber Thursday 4/29

[Randy LeVeque]

Rob Schreiber will be on campus all day next Thursday.   Please contact
me if you would like to arrange to talk with him.

 - Randy LeVeque

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Applied Mathematics Seminar
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Speaker: Rob Schreiber
              Exascale Computing Lab, HP Labs

Title:  What's Coming (Maybe) in High Performance Computing

Time: 4pm on Thursday, April 29, 2010

Room: Guggenheim 220

Abstract:

For a few years now we have been focused on the multicore processor
and its impact on HPC.  That has distracted us from some issues that
I argue are more important: getting enough memory bandwidth, getting
enough network bandwidth, getting enough storage bandwidth, tolerating
hardware and software failures, and finding more productive programming
environments.

We have recently completed a study of promising HPC research directions.
In this talk, I will focus on memory, storage, interconnect, and
programming and discuss some new technologies, specifically photonics and
non-volatile memory that may help open some of the bandwidth bottlenecks
we now encounter.  I will also talk about new programming models that
may make clusters less formidable for the programmer.

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