Challenges Towards Deploying Data Intensive Scientific Applications on Extreme Heterogeneity Supercomputers

04/25/2018
by   Hang Liu, et al.
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Shrinking transistors, which powered the advancement of computing in the past half century, has stalled due to power wall; now extreme heterogeneity is promised to be the next driving force to feed the needs of ever-increasingly diverse scientific domains. To unlock the potentials of such supercomputers, we identify eight potential challenges in three categories: First, one needs fast data movement since extreme heterogeneity will inevitably complicate the communication circuits -- thus hampering the data movement. Second, we need to intelligently schedule suitable hardware for corresponding applications/stages. Third, we have to lower the programming complexity in order to encourage the adoption of heterogeneous computing.

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