Description
IBM's Blue Gene/L system had demonstrated that it is now feasable to run
applications at sustained performances of 100's of teraflops. The next
generation Blue Gene/P system is designed to scale up to a peak performance
of 3.6 Petaflops. This talk will look at some of the key application
successes already achieved at the 100TF scale. It will then address the
emerging petascale architectures and look at the challanges which arise as
the HPC world now starts to consider designing 100 Petaflop and Exaflop
Systems. These challanges are very significant and include power, memory
bandwidth, network bandwidth, reliability, systems software, and
applications.
Author
Dr
James Sexton
(IBM)
