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Hendrickson, Bruce A.

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Center for Computing Research Highlights

Sandia has a legacy of leadership in the advancement of high performance computing (HPC) at extreme scales. First-of-a-kind scalable distributed-memory parallel platforms such as the Intel Paragon, ASCI Red (the world’s first teraflops computer), and Red Storm (co-developed with Cray) helped form the basis for one of the most successful supercomputer product lines ever: the Cray XT series. Sandia also has pioneered system software elements—including lightweight operating systems, the Portals network programming interface, advanced interconnection network designs, and scalable I/O— that are critical to achieving scalability on large computing systems.

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The Future of Scientific Computing

Attempts to predict the future have a long and inglorious history. Also, cultures from time immemorial have devoted their very best technologies to the task, utilizing apparatuses such as tea leaves, crystal balls, and animal entrails. But as Niels Bohr famously observed, “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”

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Advances in Domain Mapping of Massively Parallel Scientific Computations

One of the most important concerns in parallel computing is the proper distribution of workload across processors. For most scientific applications on massively parallel machines, the best approach to this distribution is to employ data parallelism; that is, to break the datastructures supporting a computation into pieces and then to assign those pieces to different processors. Collectively, these partitioning and assignment tasks comprise the domain mapping problem.

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