Breakout Groups
B5. Drive innovation at the frontiers of computer architecture and information technology, preparing the way for ubiquitous adoption of parallel computing, power-efficient systems, and the software and architectures needed for a decade of increased capabilities. Accelerate the development of special-purpose devices that have the potential to change the simulation paradigm for certain science disciplines.
8:15am - Requirements Collection: (45 minutes)
- B1. Climate; Jeff Kuehn
- B6. Numerical Climate-Economic-Energy; David Pugmire, Laura Monroe
- B2. Energy; Erich Strohmaier, Ricky Kendall
- B3. Bio; Sadaf Alam, Bill Gropp
- B9. Astro; Richard Barrett
- B10. Industrial Processes and Manufacturing; Olaf Storaasli
9:00am - General Architecture State-of-the-Art Overview: Jack Dongarra
9:25am - Extrapolation to where past and current technologies are taking us: Jeffrey Vetter
9:50am - BREAK
Elements of an Exascale System
- 10:10am Processors and Memory: Steve Poole
- 10:30am Interconnect: Steve Scott
- 10:50am Storage: Peter Braam
- 11:10am OS: Thomas Sterling
- 11:30am Languages: Bill Gropp
11:50am - BREAK to pick up lunches
12:10pm - Research Priorities: Candy Culhane
(discussion over lunch)
