A Research Retrospective on AMD's Exascale Computing Journey
Gabriel H. Loh, Michael Schulte, Mike Ignatowski, Vignesh Adhinarayanan, Shaizeen Aga, Derrick Aguren, Varun Agrawal, Ashwin M. Aji, Johnathan Alsop, Paul T. Bauman, Bradford M. Beckmann, Majed Valad Beigi, Sergey Blagodurov, Travis Boraten, Michael Boyer, William C. Brantley, Noel Chalmers, Shaoming Chen, Kevin Cheng, Michael L. Chu · 2023
The pace of advancement of the top-end supercomputers historically followed an exponential curve similar to (and driven in part by) Moore's Law. Shortly after hitting the petaflop mark, the community started looking ahead to the next milestone: Exascale. However, many obstacles were already looming on the horizon, such as the slowing of Moore's Law, and others like the end of Dennard Scaling had already arrived. Anticipating significant challenges for the overall high-performance computing (HPC) community to achieve the next 1000x improvement, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Exascale Computing Program to enable and accelerate fundamental research across the many technologies needed to achieve exascale computing.