Hello,
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!
It is terrific to be here in person.
Jack Dongarra is on stage to give his Turing Award Lecture
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Jack delves into his family history and the journey from a small village in Italy to here
He got to work on early supercomputers
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Translating from Algol to Fortran
TIL
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is dyslexic
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The origins of the
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benchmark
Jack Dongarra maintained a list of fast machines starting in 1977
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Hybrid architecture
#supercomputers
with a
#GPU
doing the bulk of compute became commonplace in 2020's
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Today's
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environment
o Cost of communication might trump floating point compute
o Reduced/Mixed Precision
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How the
#Top500
started and how things changed over 30 years
Jack's current laptop is much faster than the top
#supercomputer
in 1993
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Why did China not submit their
#Exascale
systems to the
#Top500
?
Jack says it is geopolitics
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Jack could not resist making a dig at the much-delayed
#Aurora
- the audience burst into laughter!
DOE's
#Exascale
program cost $4 billion over 7 years
Including systems and selected applications
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Jack highlights the deficiencies of
#HPL
and mentions
#HPCG
- the other benchmark
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