Paving the Road towards Pre-Exascale Supercomputing
Dirk Brömmel, Estela Suarez, Boris Orth, Stephan Gräf, Ulrich Detert, Dirk Pleiter, Michael Stephan, Thomas Lippert · 2014
Supercomputing at scale has become the decisive challenge for users, providers and vendors of leading supercomputer systems. On next-generation systems, approaching exascale by the end of the decade, we will be confronted with millions of cores, and the need of massive parallelism. Beyond aggregating ever larger compute performance also the ability to hold and efficiently process drastically increasing amounts of data will be key to enable future leading research facilities for computational science. We report in this article on the evolving supercomputing infrastructure at Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), research and development activities on future HPC technologies and architectures as well as on the computational science research and collaboration with science areas which will require exascale supercomputing in the future.