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HPC – The Next 20 Years. Panel at CASC Anniversary Celebration Dr. Gregory Pfister http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/. Reactions When Telling Others the Topic. Blank stare. Laughter. What an opportunity! You can make totally outrageous statements you will never be held accountable for!.
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HPC – The Next 20 Years Panel at CASC Anniversary Celebration Dr. Gregory Pfister http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/
Reactions When Telling Others the Topic • Blank stare. • Laughter. • What an opportunity! • You can make totally outrageous statements you will never be held accountable for! Gregory F. Pfister - CASC Anniversary
ITRS 2008 Roadmap • <10 nm,100s of procs on chip, multi-TB flash chips, etc • ITRS = International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Everything’s fine! http://www.itrs.net/ ? Gregory F. Pfister - CASC Anniversary
Moore’s Law Will End,with No Economical Replacement • Computing ⇒ cheaper, not faster (per proc) • Democratization of some HPC • Traditional full-function PC will have integrated high-end graphics • At least TFLOPS (SP) on your lap • (for some value of “lap”) • Cellphone/laptop; or Yotta-cloud/fog/vapor • Nothing in between, as far as you can tell • Charged not by rack or proc, but by KWH • And possibly bandwidth. Gregory F. Pfister - CASC Anniversary
Parallelism • There will be no savior language or architecture. • But data will be gigantic • “embarrassing” or “trivial” parallelism • Uninteresting, but practical • Parallel for power reduction: Pwr F2 • more procs, constant time ⇒ lower power Gregory F. Pfister - CASC Anniversary
Here it is, 2009, and I'm typing SQL statements into my telephone. This is not quite the future I'd imagined. • Tim Bray, on Twitter (timbray) Gregory F. Pfister - CASC Anniversary