Aad VAN DER STEEN
Utrech University, The Netherlands
For a long time there has been a
struggle with regard to HPC systems : whether to use commodity parts to
make the systems affordable or in some way to specialize to achieve a
performance advantage over run-of-the-mill computers. Until recently
the commodity trend seemed to have the upper hand but in the last few
years there have been interested developments that in some way reverse
or evade this trend. We will give a brief overview of current HPC
architectures ans discuss some of the new developments that may help to
speed up the applications of the Tflop-hungry HPC community.
Aad
van der Steen heads the High
Performance Computing
Group
at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and maintains since
many years the EuroBen Benchmark (http://www.euroben.nl)
and the well known annual report Overview
of recent supercomputers (http://www.euroben.nl/reports/web07/overview.html).
La présentation
faite par Aad VAN DER STEEN est disponible au format pdf.
L'annonce
de ce séminaire sous forme d'un
fichier
pdf.