PetaFLOPS Frontier '95

Even as the Federal HPCC Program works towards achieving teraFLOPS computing, far-sighted individuals in government, academia and industry have realized that teraFLOPS - level computing systems will be inadequate to address many scientific and engineering problems that exist now, let alone applications that may, and most assuredly will, arise in the future. As a result, the high performance computing community is examinng the feasibility of achieving petaFLOPS - level computing over a 20 year period.

Overview of Presentations

• Processors-In-Memory (PIM) Chip Architectures for PetaFLOPS Computing. Peter Kogge, Notre Dame University.
• A Case Study of Interactive, Immersive Visualization for Scientific Environments. Rick Stevens, Valerie Taylor and Meena Kandaswamy, Argonne National Laboratory.
• Please Everyone, Take a Futuristic Look at Optical Processing Systems. Chunming Qiao, SUNY.
• Strategic Applications for Peta(FL)OPS Computational Systems. Rick Stevens and Valerie Taylor, Agonne National Laboratory.
• Taming Massive Parallelism: The Prospects of Opto-Electronic CRCW Shared Memory. Paul Likowicz, University at Karlsruhe.
• Enabling Data-Intensive Applications through SDSC Petaflops Computing. Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputing.
• Design of a Massively Parallel Computer Using Bit Serial Processing Elements. Maurice Aburdene, Bucknell University.
• Hierarchical Distributed Genetic Algorithms Control of Simulation-based Optimization: The Need for Petaflops. George Ball, University of Arizona.
• A PetaOp/s is Currently Feasible by Computing in RAM. Duncan Elliott, University of Toronto.
• Heterogeneous Computing: One Approach to Sustained Petaflops Performance. H. J. Siegel, Purdue University.
• Some Applications Demonstrating the Existing Need for PetaFLOPS/ Petaflops Computing in Biomedical Research. Jacob Maizel, National Cancer Institute.
• Lightning: A Scalable Dynamically Reconfigurable Hierarchical WDM Network for High-Performance Clustering. Patrick Dowd, NASA Lewis Research Center/SUNY.
• PetaFLOPS and the Gravitational N-body Problem. Kevin Olson, George Mason University.
• Computational Astrophysics Calculations on PetaFlop Computers. Bruce Fryxell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Easing the Burden on Latency-Tolerance Mechanisms in PetaFLOPS Computers. David Probst, Concordia University.
• Thoughts on Artificial Life in a PetaFlop/ Second Environment. John Thorp, Cray Research.
• PetaFlops Technology: Real Time Image Compensation. Rick Lyon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Computational Requirements for Hydrodynamic Turbulence on PetaFlop Computers. Anil Deane, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Curators: Michele O'Connell (Michele.OConnell@hq.nasa.gov), Lawrence Picha (Larry.Picha@hq.nasa.gov),

Revised: 21 AUGUST 96 (lpicha)