Title: MESA Technology Development in Support of High-Performance Computing

Speaker: Tom Zipperian, Rita Gonzales, Dale Hetherington, Tony Lentine, Charles Sullivan, Rich Dondero, and Mike Descour
Sandia National Laboratories

Date/Time: 9:00 – 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 20, 2010       

Location: CSRI Building/Room 90 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract: To address power and data transfer issues, future high-performance computing (HPC) systems will have an increasing appetite for new technologies. Sandia’s MESA Microsystems capability is actively working in many different hardware-based, technology areas relevant to the problems HPC will have to address. These include trusted design, advanced packaging, optical interconnect technologies including Silicon photonics and VCSEL-based approaches, alternative technologies to Si CMOS (so-called “end-of-roadmap” technologies), and even exotic new architectural approaches like quantum information processing and optical computing.

In this informal seminar, brief summaries of the MESA-related work in each of the technology areas noted above will be presented. The vignettes themselves will provide perspectives on the depth and breadth of work done in each of these areas and the presenters will represent reasonable points-of-contact for any relevant future discussions. The purpose of the seminar is to stimulate discussion, interaction, and business development between centers engaged in this important technology area.

CSRI POC: Sudip Dosanjh, 505-845-7018