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20060925 Monday September 25, 2006

Let's Talk Petascale

At the HPC User Forum meeting in Denver this week, HPC Wire gathered up two different perspectives on Petascale computing:

"We're approaching an era when the whole notion of general-purpose HPC systems may no longer apply." -- Horst Simon, the associate laboratory director for Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab and the director of NERSC Full Story

"Well, 'general purpose' is a fuzzy concept, since a computer is only more general purpose or less general purpose than some other computer. But, realistically, only one or two governments could possibly afford a truly general-purpose sustained petaflops computer. The less money you have, the more likely it is that you will be stuck with a machine that isn't really very general purpose at all." -- David Probst, Faculty at Concordia University in Montreal Full Story

For more on Sun's research projects on Petascale computing, check out this story by Project Lead, Mike Vildibill. Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( September 25, 2006 05:00 AM ) Permalink

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