HIGH-EFFICIENCY COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Significant problems for future Russian high-performance computers (2010–2020)

V. B. Betelin, A. G. Kushnirenko, G. O. Raiko

Scientific Research Institute for System Studies of RAS, Moscow

Abstract: There are three extremely significant problems for future high-performance computer systems: high power consumption, high frequence of sporadic upsets, high checkpointing overhead. When targeting exaflops performance milestone current evolutionary approaches to these problems no more adequate. Several new approaches to the problems are listed and discussed.

Keywords: supercomputer, performance, Petaflops, Exaflops, power consumption, resilience, checkpoint.