Richard Murphy, Sandia National Labs
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Title: Can we continue to build supercomputers from processors optimized for a laptop?
Abstract: Supercomputer applications are radically different from those considered by conventional computer architects: their performance characteristics are unusual, their power requirements can be absurd, and the problems tend to be important enough to justify the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. This talk will explore the memory properties of a set of traditional and emerging supercomputer applications of interest to Sandia National Laboratories. It will further explore the design of a conventional Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) supercomputer, exemplified by the Cray Red Storm (XT) architecture. Finally, it will conclude with a description of an architecture we are in the process of prototyping at the lab, as well as the role of a national lab in the bringing novel computer architectures to silicon realization.
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November 5th, 2007
Arrive and maybe dinner depending on when Rich arrives.
November 6, 2007
Breakfast at hotel.
9:00 am : Karu Sankaralingam (6381 CS)
9:45 am : Mikko Lipasti (4613 EH)
10:15 am : Kyle Rupnow & ECE Grad Students (3632 EH)
11:30 am :
11:45 am : Lunch (Philip Wells et al.)
1:00 pm : Mike Gleicher (6385 CS) (short time slot)
1:30 pm : CS arch students (5331 CS) (Multifacet, Multiscalar, Vertical)
2:30 pm : Mark Hill (6373 CSS)
3:30 pm : Cookies
4:00 pm : Talk
5:00 pm :
Dinner: Karu and Kyle Rupnow