[AG-TECH] Symposium on Multicore and New Processing Technologies Aug 13 & 14
Paul Mercer
mercer at arsc.edu
Tue Aug 7 16:43:42 CDT 2007
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Symposium on Multicore and New Processing Technologies
A symposium exploring the capabilities and use of new high
performance computing (HPC) technologies is taking place Aug. 13 – 14
on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in conference
room 010 of the West Ridge Research Building. Space is limited for
this free symposium and registration is required.
The two-day symposium is hosted by the Arctic Region Supercomputing
Center, a national leader in the ongoing evaluation of current and
next-generation processing technologies to improve the speed, memory
functions and efficiencies of supercomputers. ARSC is a charter
member of the National Science Foundation’s Center for High
Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHPRC).
According to ARSC Chief Scientist Greg Newby, the technology path of
semiconductors coupled with user requirements has created a change in
processing hardware. “Physical limitations and power challenges have
led to the development of multicore processors,” he said. “At the
same time, special-purpose processing units for non-HPC markets are
able to provide substantial processing powers in some applications.
These include field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphical
processing units (GPUs) and gaming processors such as the CELL BE
processor, which can be used as a standalone processor or as an
application acceleration co-processor.”
Participants in the symposium will address the following questions:
How do applications scale with the multiplicity of cores, envisioning
near-future petaFLOP systems with multiple cores in each CPU socket?
What hardware limitations and features, such as memory bandwidth and
shared cache, impact scalability of applications?
How do graphical, gaming and reconfigurable processors compare in
real-world applications?
Are existing operating systems adequate to deal with those
technologies? If not, what is missing and how can shortcomings be
addressed?
What programming tools are currently available for those
technologies, and what new tools are needed?
“In order to address these and other questions of relevance to the
high performance computing community, ARSC is taking the lead once
again in this area by holding this summer symposium on multicore and
new processing technologies,” Newby said.
Invited speakers and discussion panels will include a number of
experts to pose and address these and other issues in greater details.
For more information about ARSC or to register for the symposium,
visit www.arsc.edu or email Greg Newby at newby AT arsc.edu.
Proposed Agenda (subject to change)
Symposium on Multicore and New Processing Technologies
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
August 13-14 2007
All times are Alaska time. -9 UTC, -4 eastern
Monday August 13
8:30 Registration and breakfast
9:00 Opening remarks. Frank Williams, ARSC
9:15 Workshop overview. Greg Newby, ARSC
9:30 Understanding 8-socket dual-core HPC performance at ARSC.
Ed Kornkven, ARSC
10:30 Break
11:00 Cache coherency and other factors in multi-socket multi-core
performance. Abdullah Kayi, GWU
11:45 High level language characteristics for FPGA programming.
Tarek El-Ghazawi, GWU
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Accelerating floating-point kernels via FPGAs.
Gerald (Jerry) Morris, ERDC
2:15 Adaptive supercomputing at Cray.
Charles Giefer, Cray
3:00 DNA and protein sequence alignment with high performance
reconfigurable systems. Greg Newby, ARSC
3:45 Break
4:00 FPGA libraries for HPC. Olivier Serres & Miaoqing Huang, GWU
Tuesday August 14
8:30 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 Panel: Readiness of FPGAs for an HPC workload
9:45 Playstation CELL cluster experiences. Preethan Nusum, GWU
10:30 Break
11:00 Comparison of FPGA and cell (PS3) implementations of a
Brain-State-in-a-Box cognitive model. Richard Linderman &
Daniel Burns, AFRL
11:45 GPUs for general-purpose programming. Greg Newby, ARSC
12:10 Discussion: Readiness of GPUs for an HPC workload
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Closing session: Formulating messages to developers, users,
and vendors on the prospects of multicore processors and
acceleration technology. Greg Newby, moderator
2:30 Symposium ends
Paul Mercer
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
907 450 8649
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