Co-Design 3.0 – Configurable Extreme Computing, Leveraging Moore’s Law for Real Applications
SessionInvited Talks - Shankar and Coen
Session ChairPaul Messina
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Event Type
Invited Talk
Applications
Architectures
Introductory
TimeThursday, November 17th10:30am - 11:15am
LocationBallroom-EFGHIJ
DescriptionIn this talk, we will discuss Co-design 3.0, a more adaptable and scalable framework in which systems can be dynamically configured driven by the specific needs of the applications. We will examine 6 different scaling paradigms as basis of this co-design: combinatorial nature of scientific problems, multi-scale nature of systems, algorithms, complexity of applications, Moore’s law, and economics of scaling. With the power of computing to solve problems for addressing societal needs, we need to focus on real applications as they evolve in time as opposed to standard benchmarks. For this to be practically viable with reduced costs, this should be done in a scalable manner. We think that major ongoing research and development centers of computational and physical sciences need to be formally engaged in the co-design of hardware, software, numerical methods, algorithms, and applications. As we will demonstrate with a few examples, this will help address grand scientific (technology) challenges associated with the societal problems: materials, chemistry, environment, health, and information processing. In addition, this will help in wider dispersion of the benefits of computing rather than to niche scientific communities. As part of this talk, we will also briefly illustrate a new class that we have developed in which students are taught hands-on about using extreme computing to address real applications.
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