Abstract Description: What makes HPC actually high-performing? Besides the (typically mentioned) large-scale computational problems and the resulting involvement of large-scale computing infrastructure, it is probably the pursuit of efficiency at all levels, in order to obtain the high performance desired. Here, both performance and efficiency can have completely different meanings: the classical complexity-driven one (O(N […]
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SC17 Invited Talk Preview: Dr. Theresa L. Windus Presents “Taking the Nanoscale to the Exascale”
Abstraction Description: Chemistry is a central science in that, at its core, chemistry is the understanding of the way atoms and molecules interact. Chemistry influences many areas such as physics, biology, pharmaceuticals, materials, and chemical engineering. Computational chemistry, while a relatively young part of the chemistry field, has become a third pillar in the science […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. John D. McCalpin Presents “Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems”
Short Introduction: This talk reviews the history of the changing “balances” between computation, memory latency, and memory bandwidth in deployed HPC systems, then discusses how the underlying technology changes led to these market shifts. Key metrics are the increasing relative “cost” of memory accesses and the massive increases in concurrency that are required to obtain […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. Thomas N. Theis Presents “Beyond Exascale: Emerging Devices and Architectures for Computing”
Short Introduction: Research on new and emerging devices, circuits and architectures for computing, such as that pursued under the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), can ultimately take high performance computing well beyond Exascale. Investing in exploratory research now can have a big impact beyond 2025. Invited speaker Dr. Thomas Theis is Executive Director of the Columbia […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. Sadasivan Shankar Presents “Co-design 3.0 – Configurable Extreme Computing, Leveraging Moore’s Law for Real Applications”
Think back to your childhood when you used Lego blocks to build structures. The Lego blocks were re-assembled to different structures for purely learning purposes. Let us take this a couple of steps further. Now imagine that the assembled structures themselves can be used for real functional applications. In addition, what if each of the […]
