Slow & steady wins the race. Lithograph; published: 1864.
Racing Down the Long and Winding Road to Exascale
by Mike Bernhardt
For many years, technology leadership, particularly around HPC, seemed to be entitled to the U.S. But not anymore. We can’t build an exascale roadmap solely based on the technology we understand today, and we can’t win a race without breakthrough technology in several areas. Other countries are outspending us significantly and the somewhat surprising change in global technology leadership is the result. If the U.S. doesn’t wake up and make the necessary investments in 2012, they could be out of the race for good. In Search of an Exascale Roadmap
by ThomasSterling
A message from Professor Thomas Sterling to the U.S. policy makers and funding agents: “High Performance Computing, and in particular, Exascale, have to be invented. It cannot simply be dictated, extracted or incrementally advanced with the surety of achieving the necessary goals. And that invention requires fundamental research investment which must come from the U.S. Federal government and transferred to industry.” An interview with Argonne’s Pete Beckman
by Mike Bernhardt
As Director of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne National Laboratory, Pete Beckman has his thumb on the pulse of exascale development. In this feature interview, Beckman talks about the need for substantial investment in science and technology education in the U.S., and the direct link to exascale computing. An Interview with Intel’s Extreme Scale Computing Director, Wilf Pinfold
by Mike Bernhardt
Dr. Wilfred Pinfold has a respectable track record in the HPC community. Currently the Director of Extreme Scale Computing research for Intel Labs, he was with Intel’s Supercomputer Systems Division in the mid-90s and prior to his 19 years at Intel, was with the pioneering British supercomputing company, Meiko Scientific. In this interview, Pinfold discusses the importance of global competition as the race to exascale faces a critical year on several fronts. An interview with Nvidia's Sumit Gupta
by Mike Bernhardt
In a recent poll conducted by The Exascale Report, NVIDIA was picked as one of the two most influential companies moving the world toward exascale. The company recently held a GPU Technology Conference in Beijing, China to a record audience. We spoke with NVIDIA’s Sumit Gupta on a range of topics including activities in China, competition with Intel, compilers, debuggers and the ARM processor.
We pick up the interview as Gupta is describing several of the announcements that were made at the Beijing GPU Technology Conference. Exascale Plans for Russia
by Staff
Alexei Komkov, Deputy General Director of Products and Technology for T-Platforms, talks about Exascale R&D in Russia.
Numbers don’t lie.
by Staff
Confused about how many zeros are in an exaflop? You're not the only one.
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