An Overview of High Performance Computing and Performance Issues

7/6/99


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Table of Contents

An Overview of High Performance Computing and Performance Issues

PPT Slide

Outline

High-Performance Computing Today

Growth of Microprocessor Performance

PPT Slide

Different Architectures

Vectors

Scalar

Scalar (Continued)

High-Performance Computing Directions

Top500 Fastest Installed Computers

TOP10

Performance Development

Continents

PPT Slide

Producers

Manufacturer

Customer Type

Processor Type

Chip Technology

Chip Technology

Architectures

Excerpt from TOP500

Where do the Flops go? Who Cares About the Memory Hierarchy?

Performance Issues - Cache &Bandwidth

Where Do the Flops Go? Memory Hierarchy

BLAS for Performance

How To Get Performance From Commodity Processors?

Why ATLAS is needed

Adaptive Approach for Level 3 BLAS

Code Generation Strategy

ATLAS 500x500 DGEMM Across Various Architectures

500 x 500 LU Right-Looking

Recursive Approach for Other Level 3 BLAS

500x500 Recursive BLAS on 433Mhz DEC 21164

Multithreaded BLAS for Performance

ATLAS and the Computational Grid

High Performance Computing 60 Years: From 1 to 1013 Flop/s

Performance Development

Performance Development

Summary

Europe - Countries

Fujitsu VPP 700

NEC SX-5

IBM SP

SGI Origin

SUN Enterprise

Hitachi SR8000

HP Exemplar

Compaq/DEC Alpha

Author: Jack Dongarra

Email: dongarra@cs.utk.edu

Home Page: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/