Supercomputer technology development trends (on the material of the 27.08.2012 MPAMCS-2012 lecture in Dubna)

Aleksej O. Latsis^a, Vladimir K. Levin<sup>b

a</sup> Keldysh Inst. of Applied Math., 125047, Miusskaya Sq., 4, Moscow, Russia
^b ``Kvant'' Federal Research Institute, 125438, 4-th Likhachevsky lane, 15, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: Supercomputer performance grows steadily and exponentially for many years. Without the periodic changes in the prevailing supercomputer architecture this would be impossible. Each of these architectural changes resulted in drastic changes in the usage of supercomputers, especially in the way of application programming. Today, as the heterogeneous hybrid-parallel architectures have appeared, the programming technology evolution, resulting in the evolution of the architecture, tends to become permanent. This results in some serious problems in supercomputer application, that need the urgent solutions.

Keywords: supercomputer, performance, Moore's law, Amdahl's law, the architecture of a computer system, co-processor accelerator, technology application programming, hybrid compute node.

UDC: 004.272.45

Received: 30.10.2012

 English version: Mathematical Models and Computer Simulations, 2014, 6:3, 256–261

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