(Source: insideHPC)
SC10 Analyst Crossfire – Supercomputing Wrap-up Show from Rich Brueckner on Vimeo.
In this wrap-up video from SC10, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research moderates a panel discussion on the latest developments in HPC with two industry experts and two supercomputing center directors. Recorded November 19, 2010 at SC10 in New Orleans.
Panelists:
• Jay Boisseau, Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center
• Thomas Sterling, Professor, Lousiana State University
• Peter ffoulkes, VP of Marketing, Adaptive Computing
• Michael Wolfe, Engineer, The Portland Group, Inc.
Topics:
• Tianhe and GPU computing: What is China’s global role? Will the U.S. respond? Is GPU computing the architecture of the future for HPC? Intel MIC vs. NVIDIA in 2012? Does AMD matter?
• Reaching new HPC users: Some call it the “missing middle.” Is there an opportunity to bring HPC to more users in entry-level and midrange. Supply chain. What needs to be done to enable it?
• File systems: How important are parallel file systems? Handicap the field: GPFS, Lustre, pNFS, Panasas, etc.
Speed round:
• Windows in HPC – its role?
• Cloud computing – its role?
• Highlights and disappointments from SC10
Publish Date:
12-07-2010
