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IDC Opinion
In This Study
Situation Overview
Petascale Initiatives Around the World
DARPA HPCS Program: Cray Cascade Program (Peter Ungaro)
DARPA HPCS Program: IBM PERCS Program (Rama Govindaraju)
A Petascale Initiative in China (Zeng Yu, Dawning)
European Petascale Planning (Michael Resch, HLRS/Stuttgart)
Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Roadrunner System (John Morrison)
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (Horst Simon)
National Science Foundation Initiative (Jim Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Doug Kothe)
Petascale Computer Projects in Japan (Makoto Taiji, Riken)
Perspectives from HPC Experts
Petascale Algorithms (David Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Petascale System Trends
Concurrency and Amdahl's Law
The Challenges of 100,000-Way Concurrency
High-Resolution Climate Modeling on NERSC-3
What Software Architecture Will Cope with 100,000 Processors? (John Gurd, Manchester University)
Analysis
Rule of Thumb
Petascale or Petaflops? (Paul Muzio, Chair, HPC User Forum)
The View from Berkeley (David Patterson, University of California-Berkeley)
How to Measure Success
Why Should This Work
Summary
A Productive Petaflop is a Hard Sell (David Probst, Concordia University-Montreal, Canada)
Are Programming Model Changes Needed for Petaflops? (Panel Session, Manchester University)
Andrew Jones, University of Manchester
Ben Ralston, AWE
Paul Muzio, Chair, HPC User Forum
Ian Reid, NAG
Stephen Wheat, Intel
We Have 10 Years to Construct the Petaflop Ecosystem (Martin Walker, HP)
Thermals are the Key (Stephen Wheat, Intel)
IDC Survey Highlights Related to Petascale Computing
Table: Typical Number of Processors That ISV Applications Use for Single Jobs
Table: Ability of Application to Scale to Thousands of Processors
Table: Ability of Application to Scale to Tens of Thousands of Processors
Table: Key Factors Needed for ISVs to Improve Applications
Table: Use for a Petascale Computer
Table: Willingness to Run Heterogeneous Problems
Table: Size of Problems to Solve
Future Outlook
Essential Guidance
Guidance for HPC Users/Buyers
Guidance for HPC Vendors
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