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Contemporary high performance computing : from petascale toward exascale / edited by, Jeffrey S. Vetter.

Contributor(s): Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC computational science seriesPublisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business, [2015-]Description: volumes <2> ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781466568341
  • 1466568348
  • 9781498700627
  • 1498700624
  • 1466568356
  • 9781466568358
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 004/.35 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.88 .C68 2013
Other classification:
  • COM011000 | COM059000 | MAT000000
Contents:
Contemporary high performance computing / Jeffrey S. Vetter -- HPC challenge: design, history, and implementation highlights / Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek -- The green500 list: a look back to look forward / Wu-Chun Feng, Kirk Cameron, and Thomas Scogland -- Tera 100 / Micka�el Amiet [and others] -- The mole-8.5 supercomputing system / Xiaowei Wang and Wei Ge -- Supercomputing in the DoD high performance computing modernization program / John E. West, Roy L. Campbell, and Larry P. Davis -- Keeneland: computational science using heterogeneous GPU computing / Jeffrey S. Vetter [and others] -- Blue gene/P: Jugene / Nobert Attig [and others] -- Roadrunner: the dawn of accelerated computing / Sriram Swaminarayan -- Blue gene/Q: sequoia and Mira / William E. Allcock [and others] -- "Lomonosov": supercomputing at Moscow State University / Victor Sadovnichy [and others] -- Pleiades: NASA's first petscale supercomputer / Rupak Biswas [and others] -- The blue waters super-system for super-science / Brett Bode [and others] -- Kraken: the first academic petaflop computer / Mark R. Fahey [and others] -- Titan: 20-petaflop cray XK7 at Oak Ridge national laboratory / Arthur Bland [and others] -- Blacklight: coherent shared memory for enabling science / Nick Nystrom [and others] -- Gordon: a novel architecture for data intensive computing / Pietro Cicotti [and others] -- Monte Rosa: architectural features and a path towards exascale / Sadaf R. Alam [and others] -- Tianhe:1A supercomputer: system and application / Xiangke Liao, Yutong Lu, and Min Xie -- TSUBAME2.0: the first petscale supercomputer in Japan and the greatest production in the world / Satoshi Matsuoka [and others] -- HA-PACS: a highly accelerated parallel advanced system for computational sciences / Taisyke Boku [and others] -- Magellan: a testbed to explore cloud computing for science / Lavanya Ramakrishnan [and others] -- FutureGrid: a reconfigurable testbed for cloud, HPC, and grid computing / Geoffrey C. Fox [and others] -- LLGrid: supercomputer for sensor processing / Jeremy Kepner [and others].
Summary: "While there are many important systems in high performance computing (HPC) available today, the HPC community lacks a single reference on the key aspects of the systems, such as application workloads, procurement timeline, and facilities specification. This book provides the first comprehensive resource to describe these systems and their hardware and software architectures. The first part of the book explores current trends in HPC. The second part presents detailed descriptions of deployed systems that span a number of architectures, application workloads, facilities, and sponsors"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Preface We are pleased to present you with this collection of material that captures a snapshot of the rich history of practice in Contemporary High Performance Computing. As evidenced in the chapters of this book, High Performance Computing continues to flourish, both in industry and research, both domestically and internationally. While much of the focus of HPC is on the hardware architectures, a significant ecosystem is responsible for this success. Why I edited this book My goal with this book has been to highlight significant systems and facilities in high performance computing. Early on, my main focus was proposed to be on the architectural design of important and successful HPC systems. However, I realized that HPC is about more than just hardware: it is an ecosystem that includes software, applications, facilities, educators, software developers, scientists, administrators, sponsors, and many other factors. This book is a snapshot of these contemporary HPC ecosystems, which are typically punctuated with a site's flagship system. Broadly speaking, HPC is growing internationally, so I invited contributions from a broad base of organizations including the USA, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and Switzerland. My excitement about this book grew as I started inviting authors to contribute: everyone said 'yes!' In fact, due to the limitations on hardback publishing, we had to limit the number of chapters that we could include in this edition; however, change in HPC is accelerating, so a second edition of this book may be warranted. As I explain in the introduction, the rate of change in HPC is accelerating"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-691) and index.

Contemporary high performance computing / Jeffrey S. Vetter -- HPC challenge: design, history, and implementation highlights / Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek -- The green500 list: a look back to look forward / Wu-Chun Feng, Kirk Cameron, and Thomas Scogland -- Tera 100 / Micka�el Amiet [and others] -- The mole-8.5 supercomputing system / Xiaowei Wang and Wei Ge -- Supercomputing in the DoD high performance computing modernization program / John E. West, Roy L. Campbell, and Larry P. Davis -- Keeneland: computational science using heterogeneous GPU computing / Jeffrey S. Vetter [and others] -- Blue gene/P: Jugene / Nobert Attig [and others] -- Roadrunner: the dawn of accelerated computing / Sriram Swaminarayan -- Blue gene/Q: sequoia and Mira / William E. Allcock [and others] -- "Lomonosov": supercomputing at Moscow State University / Victor Sadovnichy [and others] -- Pleiades: NASA's first petscale supercomputer / Rupak Biswas [and others] -- The blue waters super-system for super-science / Brett Bode [and others] -- Kraken: the first academic petaflop computer / Mark R. Fahey [and others] -- Titan: 20-petaflop cray XK7 at Oak Ridge national laboratory / Arthur Bland [and others] -- Blacklight: coherent shared memory for enabling science / Nick Nystrom [and others] -- Gordon: a novel architecture for data intensive computing / Pietro Cicotti [and others] -- Monte Rosa: architectural features and a path towards exascale / Sadaf R. Alam [and others] -- Tianhe:1A supercomputer: system and application / Xiangke Liao, Yutong Lu, and Min Xie -- TSUBAME2.0: the first petscale supercomputer in Japan and the greatest production in the world / Satoshi Matsuoka [and others] -- HA-PACS: a highly accelerated parallel advanced system for computational sciences / Taisyke Boku [and others] -- Magellan: a testbed to explore cloud computing for science / Lavanya Ramakrishnan [and others] -- FutureGrid: a reconfigurable testbed for cloud, HPC, and grid computing / Geoffrey C. Fox [and others] -- LLGrid: supercomputer for sensor processing / Jeremy Kepner [and others].

"While there are many important systems in high performance computing (HPC) available today, the HPC community lacks a single reference on the key aspects of the systems, such as application workloads, procurement timeline, and facilities specification. This book provides the first comprehensive resource to describe these systems and their hardware and software architectures. The first part of the book explores current trends in HPC. The second part presents detailed descriptions of deployed systems that span a number of architectures, application workloads, facilities, and sponsors"-- Provided by publisher.

"Preface We are pleased to present you with this collection of material that captures a snapshot of the rich history of practice in Contemporary High Performance Computing. As evidenced in the chapters of this book, High Performance Computing continues to flourish, both in industry and research, both domestically and internationally. While much of the focus of HPC is on the hardware architectures, a significant ecosystem is responsible for this success. Why I edited this book My goal with this book has been to highlight significant systems and facilities in high performance computing. Early on, my main focus was proposed to be on the architectural design of important and successful HPC systems. However, I realized that HPC is about more than just hardware: it is an ecosystem that includes software, applications, facilities, educators, software developers, scientists, administrators, sponsors, and many other factors. This book is a snapshot of these contemporary HPC ecosystems, which are typically punctuated with a site's flagship system. Broadly speaking, HPC is growing internationally, so I invited contributions from a broad base of organizations including the USA, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and Switzerland. My excitement about this book grew as I started inviting authors to contribute: everyone said 'yes!' In fact, due to the limitations on hardback publishing, we had to limit the number of chapters that we could include in this edition; however, change in HPC is accelerating, so a second edition of this book may be warranted. As I explain in the introduction, the rate of change in HPC is accelerating"-- Provided by publisher.

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