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[Duke of Buckingham]

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Supercomputer challenges, technologies

A supercomputer generates large amounts of heat and must be cooled. A typical TOP500 supercomputer consumes between 1 and 10 megawatt of electricity and converts all of it into heat. The cost to power and cool the system is usually one of the factors that limit the scalability of the system (for example, a high-end system such as Tianhe-1A could consume several million dollars worth of electricity per year).
Information cannot move faster than the speed of light between two parts of a supercomputer. For this reason, a supercomputer that is many meters across must have latencies between its components measured at least in the tens of nanoseconds. Seymour Cray's supercomputer designs attempted to keep cable runs as short as possible for this reason, hence the cylindrical shape of his Cray range of computers. In modern supercomputers built of many conventional CPUs running in parallel, latencies of 1–5 microseconds to send a message between CPUs are typical.
Supercomputers consume and produce massive amounts of data in a very short period of time. According to Ken Batcher, "A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems." Much work on external storage bandwidth is needed to ensure that this information can be transferred quickly and stored/retrieved correctly.


Technologies developed for supercomputers include:

Vector processing
Liquid cooling
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)
Striped disks (the first instance of what was later called RAID)
Parallel filesystems


Processing Techniques:
DSP architectures and
SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data)
Operating systems: Linux
Programming: Fortran or C, OpenMP, CUDA and OpenCL.
Software Tools: ZeroConf (Rendezvous/Bonjour) [workstations or servers] ,
Beowulf, WareWulf, and openMosix (Open Source),

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[Fire$torm]

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