Emerging Photonically-Enabled Scalable Systems
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 1:35 PM to 1:55 PM · 20 min. (Africa/Abidjan)
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Exascale Systems
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Abstract:
While HPC systems have considerably improved their raw compute performance and scalability over the last two decades --first with the adoption of compute clusters and then throughput computing, good communication performance and overall scalability are still very difficult to achieve with irregular and communication intensive sparse linear algebra and graph applications. Recent advances in chip packaging, such as Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB), novel Optical IO Photonics modules that can be directly integrated on chip, and aggressive system designs that eliminate the SW stack and natively support a scalable disaggregated system, can be used to improve overall performance and potentially break the scalability wall of state of the arts computing systems.
Abstract:
While HPC systems have considerably improved their raw compute performance and scalability over the last two decades --first with the adoption of compute clusters and then throughput computing, good communication performance and overall scalability are still very difficult to achieve with irregular and communication intensive sparse linear algebra and graph applications. Recent advances in chip packaging, such as Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB), novel Optical IO Photonics modules that can be directly integrated on chip, and aggressive system designs that eliminate the SW stack and natively support a scalable disaggregated system, can be used to improve overall performance and potentially break the scalability wall of state of the arts computing systems.
