Speaker
Mark Parsons
(EPCC)
Description
The next frontier of High Performance Computing is the
exascale. By the early part of the 2020s we expect
computers to exist that can perform 1018 calculations per
second. In order to achieve this goal the systems will be
incredibly complex with many millions of processor cores
and complex memory and communication hierarchies.
Programming such systems will be extremely challenging.
This lecture will focus on the use of software co-design to
prepare applications for exascale systems. It will explain
how we need to use incremental and disruptive approaches
to meet the many challenges posed by such systems and
discuss some of the key issues we face over the next
decade at the frontier of supercomputing.
