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High-Performance Computing for the Masses

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In this talk, the speaker will review the history and trends of high-performance computing from the users’ viewpoint. Evolutional milestones in workload, usage modes, programming models and systems architectures will be identified. Essential challenges and bottlenecks will be analyzed. He will highlight the newly formed e-Nation strategy for China of 2006-2020, and summarize R & D efforts in China to provide a high-performance computing infrastructure that could benefit half of the population of China.

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  1. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhiwei Xu

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    Yves Robert

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 94 Brett Road, NJ 08854, Piscataway, USA

    Manish Parashar

  3. Hewlett-Packard ISO, Sy 192, Whitefield Road, Mahadevapura Post, 560048, Bangalore, India

    Ramamurthy Badrinath

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 90089-2562, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Viktor K. Prasanna

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Xu, Z. (2006). High-Performance Computing for the Masses. In: Robert, Y., Parashar, M., Badrinath, R., Prasanna, V.K. (eds) High Performance Computing - HiPC 2006. HiPC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11945918_6

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