On the Three P's of Heterogeneous Computing: Performance, Power and Programmability
SESSION: On the Three P's of Heterogeneous Computing: Performance, Power and Programmability
EVENT TYPE: Panel
TIME: 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Panelists:Wu Feng, William Dally, Timothy Mattson, Michael Houston, Fabrizio Petrini, Steve Wallach
ROOM:384-385
ABSTRACT: In recent years, heterogeneous computing platforms "in a box" have quickly moved from being the exception to being the norm in high-performance computing (HPC). Examples of supercomputers that are based on such heterogeneous computing platforms now exist everywhere --- from the "AMD Opteron CPU + Cell Broadband Engine" heterogeneous combination found in LANL's Roadrunner (1.76 petaflops) to the myriad of emerging "CPU+GPU" heterogeneous combinations, such as in NSCS's Nebulae (1.27 petaflops). Another combination that is seeing increasing attention is the
CPU+FPGA.
This panel seeks to address arguably the three biggest problems in heterogeneous computing on the road to exascale: performance, power, and programmability.
