Index

• Teraflops Computing
• Petaflops Computing
• HPCC
• Manufacturers
• Other Resources

Teraflops Computing

Intel Teraflops Computer

References:

• Sandia:
• ASCI RED Page, Overview and RED Picture Gallery
• Sandia ultracomputing applications page
• LLNL:
• ASCI RED Supercomputing Platform
• Press Releases:
• DOE ASCI Teraflops Computer Fully Running (Sandia; 11/06/1997)
• DOE Ultracomputer press release (DOE; 16/12/1996)

IBM and SGI/Cray Teraflops Computers

References:

• LANL:
• ASCI Blue Mountian with Open Blue Mountain Supercomputing Platform (SGI/Cray)
• ASCI White: 12 TFLOPS: "IBM Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer to Simulate Nuclear Testing for U.S. Energy Department", LANL (29 Jun 2000).
• LLNL:
• ASCI  Blue Pacific based on the IBM RS/6000 SP will be built from 4096 Power3 Microprocessors.
• Livermore Computing
• Sandia:
• ASCI Red News
• Parallel Tools Consortium
• Press Releases:
• Cray Research-Silicon Graphics wins DOE awardfor world's most powerful supercomputer ($110.5 Million)
• LLNL Selects IBM for $93 Million Contract

PathForward

• 'PathForward' Aims for 30 Trillion Operations Per Second By 2001
• PathFoward FAQ
• Silicon Graphics/Cray Receives Development Contract Through Department of Energy's ASCI Program
• DIGITAL Receives Development Contract through U.S. Department of Energy ASCI Program
• DIGITAL To Break 1,000Mhz Barrier With High-Powered New Generation of Alpha Architecture
• IBM Awarded PathForward Contract by DOE
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AWARDS SUN R?D CONTRACT TO ACHIEVE TERAFLOPS SCALE SYSTEMS

Petaflops Computing

Petaflops Computing Links

• Petaflops 2, Feb. 15-19, 1999
• NASA:
• PetaFLOPS Enabling Technologies and Applications
• Activities and Events Leading to PetaFLOPS Computing
• NASA HPCC PETA (PetaFLOPS Enabling Technologies and Applications)
• Enabling Technologies for Peta(FL)OPS Computing at NHSE

Petaflops Computing Investigators

• Dr. George Lake works on the HPCC/ESS Project at the University of Washington.
• Paul H. Smith, DOE
• Thomas Sterling, NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab
• Paul Messina, CCAR Calif. Inst. of Tech.
• Rick L. Stevens Argonne National Laboratory

Other Resources

• Center for Advanced Computing Research at California Institute of Technology.
• Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University.
• Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Resources
• Parallel Computing Sites from David A. Bader.
• The world's top 200+ computing sites from Ahrendt Gunter.
• History of Parallel Computing

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HPCC

High Performance Computing & Communications (HPCC) Links

• The National Coordination Office for Computing, Information and Communications has High Performance Computing & Communications "Blue Books" describing project progress to design and produce computers capable of executing at a petaflops rate.
• NASA High Performance Computing and Communications Office
• Nasa's High Performance Computing and Communications Project
• NOAA HPCC Office
• National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) and Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at  Syracuse University
• UW HPCC/ESS Project

High Performance Computing Archive
• RCI, Ltd - HPCC Users Consortium

Future Computers

The National Security Agency has a number of interesting projects.  The MARQUISE Program will attempt to produce 800 MFLOPS computers in a pizza sized box using diamond substrates and micromachiend spray cooling techniques. A 128 x 128 2.5 Gigabit per second supercooled crossbar switch with 320 Gigabit total capacity has been developed for high speed interconnection. The High Performance Systems Report notes multicomputers are able to deliver 1 Megaflops at a cost of $10.

Manufacturer Links

• Cray Research, manufactuer of the Cray T3E which can have from 16 to 2048 processors and is capable of up to 1.8 Teraflops. The T3E is based on DEC 21164 processors running at 450 Mhz.
• Intel Supercomputers documents the Intel TeraFLOPS Program.
• Silicon Graphics
• Tera Computer Company, manufacturer of MultiThreaded Architecture (MTA) systems which have a scalable architecture from 16 to 256 processors operating at 333 Mhz.
• OptiComp - Research in High Performance Optoelectronic Computing
• Integrated Computing Engines, Inc.

Other Sources

• Robert's SIA Road Map
• Robert's Single Electron Device Bibliography
• Copper Chip Advances
• The National Coordination Office for Computing, Information and Communications
• DARPA: Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)
• Advanced Lithography
• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Aims to develop TFLOP computing by 2001 with a 1 ft³, 300 W, 10 lb system.
• "Breaking the Teraflops Barrier", David Clark, IEEE Computer 30(2):12-14, February, 1997.
• "Compaq expected to win supercomputer bid", Stephen Shankland, C|Net News.com, 18 August 2000.

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Terms and Definitions

• flops: Floating Point Operations Per Second. A floating point operation is typically considered to be an addition or multiplication of two floating point numbers. Floating point numbers are usually 64 bit numbers consisting of a sign (+/-) an 8-9 bit exponent and 54-55 bit fraction.