Open Questions: Terascale and Grid Computing
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Introduction
Site indexes
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Galaxy: Supercomputing and Parallel Computing
- Categorized site directory. Entries usually include
descriptive annotations.
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Galaxy: High Performance Computing
- Categorized site directory. Entries usually include
descriptive annotations.
Sites with general resources
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Top 500 Supercomputer Sites
- This site is dedicated to maintaining a census of installed
and soon-to-become-available high-end supercomputers.
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Grid.org
- "Grid.org is a single destination site for large-scale,
non-profit research projects of global significance."
The projects run on millions of personal computers and include
cancer research,
smallpox research, and computation of
protein structure of all human proteins.
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Intel Tera-scale Computing
- "The Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program is
Intel's R&D effort to scale today's dual-core and multi-core
processors up to designs that have the tens or hundreds of
energy-efficient cores with teraflops of compute capability."
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International Supercomputer Conference
- Yearly conference on supercomputers, held in Europe.
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Project HTMT
- NASA Web site for the HTMT project developing trans-petaflop
computer systems.
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NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
- Site contains information about the organization, feature
stories on the research, published papers and reports, and
software. One of the main projects is NASA's
Information Power Grid, which has some useful
external links and references on grid computing.
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Blue Gene
- Information on IBM's 360 teraflop Blue Gene computer family,
including discussion of some of its aplications.
Related information includes an
issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development about Blue Gene,
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BlueGene/L
- Information on the general configuration and expected applications
of the BlueGene computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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ASCI Purple RFP
- Lawrence Livermore Laboratory request for proposals for a 100
teraflop computer to be completed in 2004. The project
was awarded to IBM.
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Earth Simulator Center
- Home page of the Japanese research facility which as of 2002 is
using a 35 teraflop computer developed by NEC.
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Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
- Pages at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory dealing mostly
with the ASCI White supercomputer, including a June 29, 2000
press
release describing the capabilities of the system.
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Cray X1
- Commercially available supercomputer developed by
Cray, Inc. with performance
up to 52 teraflops.
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VirginiaTech Terascale Cluster
- Description of the Terascale Cluster project at
Virginia Tech.
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NAS Project: Columbia
- General information and news from the NASA Advanced Supercompting
(NAS) Division on its latest supercomputer, Columbia, which is capable
of peak speeds around 50 teraflops.
Surveys, overviews, tutorials
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Supercomputer
- Article from
Wikipedia.
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Grid computing
- Article from
Wikipedia.
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Grand challenge problem
- Article from
Wikipedia.
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Building the next IT revolution
- October 2003 article from
Physics World, by
Steve Lloyd. "A new chapter in scientific computing opened earlier
this summer when a prototype of the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) was
deployed across three continents. The LCG project is designed to
meet the unprecedented computing requirements of the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC), which is currently being constructed at CERN."
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IBM gears up to gene challenge
- August 2003 article from
Physics World, by
Robert P. Crease. "Designed to simulate how proteins fold, IBM's
powerful Blue Gene computer could transform medical science."
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Simulating the Planet Earth
- May 2002 article by NEC about its Earth Simulator supercomputer
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A Hybrid Technology Multithreaded (HTMT) Computer Architecture for
Petaflops Computing
- Long 1997 technical paper by Thomas Sterling giving an
overview of HTMT computer architecture.
- Grid Computing
W. Mitchell Waldrop
Technology Review, May 2002, pp. 30-37
- When even the most powerful individual computers are not up
to the most difficult computing tasks, the next alternative is
to combine a number of such machines through an ultra-high-speed
network that serves up computing resources much like the electric
power grid delivers electricity.
- How to Build a Hypercomputer
Thomas Sterling
Scientific American, July 2001, pp. 38-45
- Supercomputer speeds continue to increase rapidly, yet never
seem to be enough for applications in climatology, medicine, astronomy,
bioscience, controlled fusion, nanotechnology, and many other
areas. A variety of technological approaches are being pursued
to achieve petaflop performance.
- Gene Machine
Oliver Morton
Wired, July 2001, pp. 148-159
- Computing the structure of proteins is a daunting
challenge. IBM's "Blue Gene" project is developing a petaflop
(1000 teraflop) computer to attack the problem by 2004.
- Monsters in a Box
David Pescovitz
Wired, December 2000, pp. 341-347
- New massively parallel supercomputers capable of teraflop speeds
are starting to be employed for commercial as well as scientific
applications.
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