Using the TOP500 to trace and project technology and architecture trends

Proceedings of 2011 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kogge, Peter M ^a   Dysart, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Exascale; Heterogeneous systems; System projections; TOP500

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SYSTEM; EXASCALE; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LEADING EDGE; MEMORY CAPACITY; SYSTEM PROJECTION; TOP500;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; TRACE ANALYSIS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 83155160951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063384.2063421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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