[BANANA] Berkeley Lab - Scientific Computing Seminar, June 22, 2007

[Parry Husbands]

Date: Friday, June 22, 2007
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Building 50A-5132

Seminar Speaker: John Shalf
                  NERSC, LBL
                  jshalf (at) lbl (dot) gov

Title: The Landscape of Computing Architecture

Abstract:

The past 2 years has seen a sea change in computer architecture
that will impact every facet of our society as every electronic
device from cell phone to supercomputer will need to confront
parallelism of unprecedented scale. Whereas the conventional
multicore approach (2, 4, and even 8 cores) adopted by the computing
industry will eventually run out of steam, the highest performance
per watt and per chip area is achieved using manycore technology
(hundreds or even thousdands of cores). However, fully unleashing
the potential of the manycore approach to ensure future advances
in sustained computational performance will require fundamental
advances in computer architecture and programming models that
are nothing short of reinventing computing.

Sponsor of Seminar: Parry Husbands