Lessons on Integrating and Utilizing 10 Million Cores:
Experience of Sunway TaihuLight
SessionPlenary Invited Talk
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Event Type
Invited Talk
TimeThursday, November 16th8:30am -
9:15am
LocationMile High Ballroom
DescriptionThe Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is the world's
first system with a peak performance greater than 100
PFlops and a parallel scale of over 10 million cores.
Different from other existing heterogeneous
supercomputers, the system adopts its unique design
strategies in both the architecture of its 260-core
Shenwei CPU and its way of integrating 40,960 such CPUs
as 40 powerful cabinets. This talk will first introduce
and discuss design philosophy about the approach to
integrate these 10 million cores, at both the processor
and the system level. Based on such a system design, we
will then talk about the efforts and the challenges as
we see in the process of utilizing the 10 million cores
to push forward the frontiers of science in domains such
as climate, seismology, material, bioinformatics, and
big data analytics.
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