SCIDAC Town Hall
Alan Edelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Computer Science and AI Laboratories
Interactive Supercomputing
Chief Science Officer
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Star-P Client/Server Parallel Computing
The Client (a math lab) is the browser
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Web vs traditional
• Bank/financial
• Email
• Travel
• Photos
• MIT Grades
• Your Parallel
Computing!
Exaflops?
• Alan the Scientist: I love breakthrough
science
• Alan with ISC experience: users are
thrilled to get 2x,4x, and 8x EASILY
• How to balance?
– 1000s of teraflop users vs 1 petaflop user
– 1000s of petaflop users vs 1 exaflop user
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• EASE OF USE in high level languages
• But can add in your codes too!
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Example: The M language of Mathworks
MATLAB®
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Example: Mathematica®
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Example:Python®
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Example:R® Client
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