Conveners
Nuove tecnologie Software
- Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)
- Dario Livio Menasce (MIB)
- Roberto Alfieri (PR)
Elisabetta Ronchieri
(INFN CNAF)
28/05/2015, 10:30
Dr
Carlo Cavazzoni
(CINECA)
28/05/2015, 11:10
The top500 list of last November shows for the first time a clear sign of slow down in the growing rate of supercomputers power. Not only just one new system enter in the top10 (wrt June 2014), but also the last system of the top500 display very little performance improvement.
It is not a mistary that the long standing Moore's low is approaching an inevitable decline.
Two factors mostly...
Dr
Enrico Calore
(INFN, Sezione di Ferrara)
28/05/2015, 11:40
An increasing number of HPC systems adopt heterogeneous node architectures, combining traditional multi-core CPUs with energy-efficient massively parallel accelerators, such as GPUs.
The need to exploit the computing power of these systems, in conjunction with the lack of standardization in their hardware and/or programming frameworks, raises new issues with respect to scientific software...
