Speaker
Thomas Schulthess
(Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) at Manno)
Description
In fall 2009 numerous applications sustained a petaflop/s
under productions conditions on “Jaguar”, the Cray XT5
system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and delivering
impactful scientific results. Sustained petaflop/s computing
thus came about several years before the first “planned
sustained petaflop/s systems” – the IBM Blue Waters
system at NCSA – would come online in 2011. The
experiences and lessons learned from the application
developments that led to this surprising early success of
petaflop/s computing will be discussed in the light of
ongoing discussions around the roadmap towards exascale
computing. Specifically, we will discuss the Swiss platform
for High-Performance and High-Productivity Computing
(hp2c.ch<http://hp2c.ch>), a program that could serve as
a model for European contributions toward exascale
computing.
Primary author
Thomas Schulthess
(Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) at Manno)
