SC Conference - Activity Details
The Road to Exascale: Hardware and Software Challenges
Moderator:
William J. Camp
(Intel Corporation)
Panelists:
| Jack Dongarra (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
| Peter Kogge (University of Notre Dame) |
| Marc Snir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Steve Scott (Cray Inc.) |
| Friday, 10:30AM - 12:00PM |
| Room PB251 |
For three decades we have increased the performance of highest-end computing about 1000-fold each decade. In doing so, we have had to increase the degree of parallelism, cost, footprint and power dissipation of the top systems in each generation. Now we are challenged to move from petascale in 2008-9 to exascale in 2018-19. The obstacles we face are qualitatively harder than any we have dealt with until now and are unprecedented even by the history we build on. To achieve reasonable power, reliability, programmability, cost, and size targets will take major breakthroughs in hardware and software. For example we will have to create and program systems with hundreds of million of processor cores. This panel will review the hardware and software advances needed for exascale computing and will attempt to lay out research, development and engineering roadmaps to successfully overcome the obstacles in our path and create the needed advances.
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