Lecture#1
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High performance computing for non-programmers
Glib Ivashkevych
junior researcher, NSC KIPT
Lecture #1:
How computing is changing our lives
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Computing is everywhere
Science & engineering
Manufacturing Medicine
Telecom
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VFX |
Banking |
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Retail |
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Progress is huge
CP-PACS |
Tesla C2075 |
2048 cores |
448 cores |
University of Tsukuba, Nov 1996 |
by Nvidia, Sept 2011 |
Progress is huge
ASCI Red |
Tesla K20X |
9152 cores |
1792 cores |
Sandia National Lab, Nov 1997 |
by Nvidia, Nov 2012 |
Progress is huge
First supercomputer built from commodity hardware
Start of broadly available computing resources era
ASCI Red 9152 cores
Sandia National Lab, Nov 1997
Progress is huge
HPC is now
cheaper than ever, easier than ever,
more accessible than ever
Computers help to
solve problems once unsolvable
Computational revolution
Science: Human Brain Project
50 PFLOPs for modeling of mouse brain
1 EFLOPs for modeling of human brain
Computers help to
solve problems once unsolvable
Computational revolution
Science: CERN IT infrastructure
15 PBytes of data annually at LHC, global tiered infrastructure
1 Tier 0, 11 Tier 1, 140 Tier 2 sites
Computers help to
solve problems once unsolvable
Computational revolution
Engineering: Car crash simulation
Finite-elements modeling
Millions of equations
Tens of thousands of crash simulations a month
Computers help to
solve problems once unsolvable