When Dustin Leverman was growing up, he likely didn’t imagine that his interest in machines would someday turn into a career at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. But since childhood, he has been curious about how things work. “When I was little, my dad would give me something like a flashlight, and […]
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SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: ORNL’s Dr. Thomas Schulthess Presents “Reflecting on the Goal and Baseline for Exascale Computing”
Full Abstract: Application performance is given much emphasis in discussions of Exascale computing. A 100-fold increase in sustained performance over today’s applications running on multi-petaflops supercomputing platforms should be the expected target for Exascale systems deployed early next decade. In this talk we will reflect on what this means in practice and how much these […]
