Workshop Summary Workshop SummaryA petaFLOPS is a measure of computer performance equal to a million billion operations (or floating point operations) per second. It is comparable to more than ten times all the networked computing capability in America and is ten thousand times faster than the world's most powerful massively parallel computer. A PetaFLOPS computer is so far beyond anything within contemporary experience that its architecture, technology, and programming methods may require entirely new paradigms in order to achieve effective use of computing systems at this scale. For the U.S. to retain leadership in high-performance computing development and application in the future, planning and even early research into PetaFLOPS system design and methodologies may be essential now. To start these processes a number of Federal agencies combined to sponsor the first major conference in this emerging area.
The Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Peta(FL)OPS Computing was hosted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California from February 22 to 24, 1994 and included over 60 invited contributors from industry, academia, and government. They met to establish the basis for considering future research initiatives that will lead to U.S. preeminence in developing, producing, and applying PetaFLOPS-scale computing systems.
The broad goal of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Peta(FL)OPS Computing was to conduct and produce the first comprehensive assessment of the field of PetaFLOPS computing systems and to establish a baseline of understanding of its opportunities, challenges, and criticla elements with the intent of setting near-term research directions to reduce uncertainty and enhance our knowledge of this field.
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P.E.T.A. DirectoryCurators: Michele O'Connell ( Michele.OConnell@hq.nasa.gov), Lawrence Picha (Larry.Picha@hq.nasa.gov),
