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Herr Prof. Dr. Helmut Neukirchen der University of Iceland wird am 07.11.2017 um 16:00 Uhr (c.t.) im Seminarraum 2.101 des Instituts für Informatik einen Vortrag über das H2020-Projekt DEEP-EST halten. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen.
 
Vortragstitel: Software Engineering Challenges of the H2020 DEEP-EST Modular Supercomputing Architecture

Abstract: While Moore's law still gives as a doubling of the number of transistors in an integrated circuit every two years, this does not anymore yield as well an associated doubling of clock speed and performance per clock cycle every two years. Hence, the only way to speed-up nowadays computations is parallel processing. However, due to non-parallel overheads, parallel processing does not scale infinitely and the state-of-the-art High-Performance Computing (HPC) approach to achieve high processing speed are heterogeneousarchitectures, using accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) or Many Integrated Cores (MIC) in addition to general purpose Central Processing Units (CPUs). Existing HPC codes however need to be rewritten to exploit the accelerators. This talks give a brief overview on the heterogeneous, Modular Supercomputing Architecture (MSA) of the European H2020 research project DEEP-EST (Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform – Extreme Scale Technologies) and the resulting Software Engineering challenges.