Abstract

The increased clock rates that have characterized the evolution of computing the last 40 years seem to be gone. To be able to build increasingly powerful High Performance Computing systems, exploitation of highly parallel systems will be necessary. To be able to achieve these levels of performance one has to invest in programming model development and HPC software stacks but one also has to rethink system interconnects, packaging, power and cooling. IBM is investing in a broad range of technologies that all aim at being able to deliver systems with Petaflop level performance and beyond. In this talk emphasis will be given to the continued evolution of the Blue Gene family of systems, POWER processor based systems and Cell BE processor based systems as well as the evolution of Highly Dense x86-based systems in partnership with customers with extreme demands.

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