Relevant Links

• Wikipedia on Roadrunner
  
• The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley,  UCB/EECS-2006-183, December 2006
• Catherine Crawford, IBM Chief Architect, Where's the Software to Catch up to Multicore Computing? in both Dr. Dobb's Journal and Information Week, Jan. 2007.
  

The following are Los Alamos Computer Science Institute (LACSI) Symposium 2006 talks on heterogeneity:

• Burton Smith, Microsoft Corp., Reinventing Supercomputing, LACSI 2006 keynote       
• Invited Session: Heterogeneity
• Ken Koch, LANL, What Does Heterogeneity Bring?     
• Keith Cooper, Rice Univ., Obtaining Performance in Heterogeneous Systems
• Mary Hall, USC, Strategies for High-Performance Heterogeneous Applications: A Compiler Perspective  
• Full LACSI Conference Proceedings

(Press) Heterogeneous and Multi-core Future?

• HPCwire Is Supercomputing Going Hetero?
  
• HPCwire Picking the Right Trends
  
• Intel Outlines its HPC Strategy (especially note the last 4 questions)
• AMD Sees a Heterogeneous Future
  
• CTWatch Quarterly Feb 2007 entirely devoted to Multicore
  
  • Dongarra, ORNL/UT: Introduction
  • Dongarra, Gannon, Fox, Kennedy: The Impact of Multicore on Computational Science Software
  • Manferdelli, Microsoft: The Many-Core Inflection Point for Mass Market Computer Systems
  • McCalpin, Moore, Hester (AMD): The Role of Multicore Processors in the Evolution of General-Purpose Computing
  • Turek, IBM: High Performance Computing and the Implications of Multi-core Architectures  (heterogeneous)
    

  Contract Award Announcements

• LANL Roadrunner press release May 11, 2006, Los Alamos aims to break new computing barrier
  
• IBM Roadrunner contract announcement
  
• NNSA Roadrunner contract announcement
  
• CNET News articles about Roadrunner contract announcement:
  http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-6112439.html
  http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6112975.html
• HPCwire, Dave Turek of IBM about Roadrunner: IBM Unlocks the Cell