Salishan 2003

Theme: Extreme Scale Computing

Keynote Address: Moore’s Law – A Time for Reflection and Refraction; Petaflops in 2009/10, Steven J. Wallach, Chiaro Networks, Ltd.

Session 1: Critical Components in Extreme Scale System Architectures

• The Road to Billion Transistor Processor Chips in the Near Future (pdf), Roger Golliver, Intel
• The Architecture of the AMD Opteron™ Processor (pdf), Fred Weber, AMD
• Perspectives on The Memory Wall Problem (pdf), Sally McKee, Cornell University
• Evolution of Interconnects for Supercomputing (pdf), Moray McLaren, Quadrics Ltd, Bristol

Session 2: System Architectures of Large HPC Platforms

• The ASCI Q System at Los Alamos (pdf), John Morrison, LANL
• Earth Simulator vs. the Rest of the Supercomputing World – Ten rounds or a Knock-Out? (pdf), Darren J. Kerbyson, LANL
• Red Storm Computer Architecture and its Implementation (pdf), William Camp, SNL
• ASCI Purple & BlueGene/L Overview (pdf), Mark Seager, LLNL

Session 3: Applicability of Linux in HPC Systems

• Extreme Linux: The Continuum, Jon Hall, Linux International
• Role of Linux in High Performance Computing @ HP (pdf), Scott McClellan, Hewlett Packard
• Linux Never has been and Never will be “Extreme” (pdf), Barney Maccabe, University of New Mexico
• Yawn, Linux for HPC, What’s Next? (pdf), Pete Beckman, ANL

Session 4: User Perspectives of Current HPC Systems

• Twenty Years of High Performance, Parallel Computing: Vector Machines to HPC Linux Clusters (pdf), Harold Trease, PNNL
• Spectral-Element Simulations of Global Seismic Wave Propagation using the Earth Simulator, Jeroen Tromp, Caltech
• Making High Performance Computers Highly Productive (pdf), William Carlson, Institute for Defense Analysis
• High Resolution Simulations of Global Climate and its Effect on Regional Water Supplies (pdf), William Bosl, LLNL

Session 5: Homeland Defense Applications

• The Role of Computation in Biodefense (pdf), Murray Wolinsky, LANL
• Technology Convergence and National Security (pdf), Rob Leland, SNL