Supercomputers Today and Tomorrow: Architecture, Challenges, Prospects
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Overview of supercomputer architecture, current problems, and future prospects: describes modern supercomputer hardware and software stacks, major challenges (scalability, energy efficiency, fault tolerance) and likely directions for development and improvement.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:32What is a supercomputer
- 3:43Top500 ranking and performance
- 8:08Modern supercomputer architectures
- 11:18Vector and cluster architectures
- 13:05Massively parallel systems
- 14:31Accelerators and hybrid systems
- 17:29GPUs as accelerators
- 20:44Accelerator challenges
- 21:08Interconnect: supercomputer networking
- 23:15Reliability and topology issues
- 26:49Network topologies: Dragonfly and hypercube
- 27:11Energy efficiency in supercomputers
- 28:13Supercomputer operating systems
- 30:00File systems and data processing
- 31:45Memory development prospects
- 32:27Parallel programming tools
- 33:09MPI and OpenMP software models
- 34:18Supercomputing development barriers
- 35:43Energy and physical barriers
- 36:04Memory and performance issues
- 37:28Interconnect power consumption
- 38:09Reliability and fault tolerance
- 38:52Technology development prospects
- 39:56Alternative processor architectures
- 41:01Memory and optical tech prospects
- 42:09Supercomputers in Big Data
- 43:32Hardware vs software in supercomputing
- 44:14About T-Platforms
- 45:38Software challenges
- 47:45Q&A