Advancing High Performance Computing solutions for neuroinformatics applications

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Event Abstract Back to Event Advancing High Performance Computing solutions for neuroinformatics applications Andrey Semin1* 1 Intel, Germany Neuroinformatics applications for many years are among the most demanding for computation performance, and scientists foresee continued demands for large computational capacity for wide range of medical and life sciences applications. However there are number of challenges in software and hardware development that needed to be solved in order to provide scientists with scalable supercomputers capable to deliver high sustained performance for large-scale simulations. We first review the history of supercomputer hardware developments, and then outline trends highlighting limiting factors which designers foresee on the way of building large scale supercomputers, usually involved power and cooling requirements of the supercomputers, their size and cost. Though hardware difficulties can be overcome with continued technology development and we’ll likely see continued increase in the peak performance of large-scale systems, but it is important that these supercomputers continue deliver high sustained performance for challenging scientific applications. And this is where the software starts paying the bigger role. By software we understand not just the application itself, but the whole stack of software, starting with programming paradigm and language, spanning to middleware and system software. Many of the previously developed software paradigms and programming languages have not been designed to take the full advantage of hardware of the future. Thus many companies have started research and development of new programming languages and paradigms better suited for the supercomputers we’ll likely see in several years, so we devote significant part of discussion to the software aspects of supercomputing, and impacts that these software paradigm shifts have on software development practices. Conference: Neuroinformatics 2009, Pilsen, Czechia, 6 Sep - 8 Sep, 2009. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Topic: Workshop 4 - High performance computing and grid infrastructure for neuroinformatics applications Citation: Semin A (2019). Advancing High Performance Computing solutions for neuroinformatics applications. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2009. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.11.2009.08.134 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 11 Jun 2009; Published Online: 09 May 2019. * Correspondence: Andrey Semin, Intel, Munich, Germany, andrey.semin@intel.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Andrey Semin Google Andrey Semin Google Scholar Andrey Semin PubMed Andrey Semin Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.