Title: An Overview of X-caliber for 1400

Speaker: Richard Murphy, Sandia National Laboratories

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 10:00 a.m.      

Location: CSRI Building/Room 90 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract: This talk will serve as an overview of the Sandia-led DARPA UHPC X-caliber project.  X-caliber is a research project to rethink supercomputers from the standpoint of data-movement, which is the dominant energy cost at all scales moving forward.  This talk will primarily be targeted to non-architects to give a sense of the project, our approach, and most importantly to generate feedback from the perspective of people who might use such a machine.  The X-caliber target is a 2018 prototype system consisting of 1+ PF in a single 57-KW rack, which is about a 50X improvement in energy over commodity systems in the same time-frame.  Because the target is not a production supercomputer, we are free to radically rethink any relevant aspect of the system to improve energy efficiency, performance, programmability, or dependability.

CSRI POC: Richard Murphy, 505-844-7122