1–5 Sept 2014
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Europe/Prague timezone

Memory Models in HPC: Successes and Problems

2 Sept 2014, 11:50
35m
Faculty of Civil Engineering

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Thakurova 7/2077 Prague 166 29 Czech Republic
Plenary Computing Technology for Physics Research Plenary

Speaker

Dr Antun Balaz (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

Description

Performance and scaling of many algorithms in scientific and distributed computing crucially depend on the memory model, organization and speed of access to the memory hierarchy. We will review parallel computing strategies and memory models in modern HPC, discuss MPI and OpenMP parallelization paradigms, as well as hybrid programming approach and memory mismatch problem. We will comment on the emerging hybrid programming hierarchy due to introduction of GPGPUs, FPGAs and other types of accelerators.

Primary author

Dr Antun Balaz (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

Presentation materials