SC Conference - Activity Details
Flash Technology in HPC: Let the Revolution Begin
Moderator:
Robert Murphy
(Sun Microsystems)
Panelists:
| Dale Layfield (Sun Microsystems) |
| David Flynn (Fusion-io) |
| Paresh Pattani (Intel Corporation) |
| Jan Silverman (Spansion) |
| Friday, 08:30AM - 10:00AM |
| Room PB251 |
The inexorable march of ever more CPU cores, and even more GFLOPS per core, means HPC application performance will no longer be bounded by the CPU - but by getting data into and out of these fast processors. I/O has always lagged behind computation, being ultimately dependent on disk drives throttled by rotational rates limited by mechanical physics. With an exponential growth spurt of peak GFLOPs available to HPC system designers and users imminent, the CPU performance I/O gap will reach increasingly gaping proportions.
To bridge this gap, Flash is suddenly being deployed in HPC as a revolutionary technology that delivers faster time to solution for HPC applications at significantly lower costs and lower power consumption than traditional disk based approaches.
This panel, consisting of experts representing all points of the Flash technology spectrum, will examine how Flash can be deployed and the effect it will have on HPC workloads.
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