Petascale Computing Research Challenges - A Manycore Perspective

Summary form only given. Future high performance computing will undoubtedly reach Petascale and beyond. Today's HPC is tomorrow's personal computing. What are the evolving processor architectures towards multi-core and many-core for the best performance per watt; memory bandwidth solutions to feed the ever more powerful processors; intra-chip interconnect options for optimal bandwidth vs. power? With Moore's Law continuing to prove its viability and shrinking transistors' geometry, improving reliability is even more challenging. Intel Senior Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, Steve Pawlowski, will provide his technology vision, insight and research challenges to achieve the vision of Petascale computing and beyond