The future of HPC: beyond GPUs and x86
Gianmarco Accordi
DEIB, PHD Student in Information Technology
Research assistant
DEIB Alario Room (Building 21)
September 12th, 2023
9.00 am
Contacts:
Gianmarco Accordi
Research Line:
System architectures
DEIB, PHD Student in Information Technology
Research assistant
DEIB Alario Room (Building 21)
September 12th, 2023
9.00 am
Contacts:
Gianmarco Accordi
Research Line:
System architectures
Sommario
On September 12th, 2023 at 9.00 am Gianmarco Accordi will held a seminar on "The future of HPC: beyond GPUs and x86" in DEIB Alario Room (Building 21).
Scientific applications are eager to use computational resources provided by HPC centers to deliver more accurate results. HPC supercomputing centers are always trying to push their computing capability, advertising higher and higher values of FLOPS. A common trend to reach this goal is to hinge on external accelerators.
Different accelerator architectures have been proposed and evaluated in the history of HPC. The current trend in HPC is the large-scale use of GPU accelerators. This trend started in the late 2000s and continues today, thanks to the GPU's ability to perform matrix computations for AI models.
However, different promising architectures can be the future of HPC. The presentation starts by analyzing past architectures deployed in HPC centers. Then, it will introduce next-generation architectures, which can become a new trend in HPC.
Scientific applications are eager to use computational resources provided by HPC centers to deliver more accurate results. HPC supercomputing centers are always trying to push their computing capability, advertising higher and higher values of FLOPS. A common trend to reach this goal is to hinge on external accelerators.
Different accelerator architectures have been proposed and evaluated in the history of HPC. The current trend in HPC is the large-scale use of GPU accelerators. This trend started in the late 2000s and continues today, thanks to the GPU's ability to perform matrix computations for AI models.
However, different promising architectures can be the future of HPC. The presentation starts by analyzing past architectures deployed in HPC centers. Then, it will introduce next-generation architectures, which can become a new trend in HPC.
