SGI Project Ultraviolet: Multi-Paradigm Computing

"SGI® Project Ultraviolet, Our Next Generation HEC Architecture: Multi-Paradigm Computing",
　Eng Lim Goh, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Silicon Graphics, Inc, 2004
　http://www.sgi.com/features/2004/july/project_ultraviolet/
"What we came up with is simple and, we think, compelling. We've called it "Multi-Paradigm Computing," and Dave Parry and his product group plan to deliver the full architectural implementation of our design by 2007. Between now and 2007, we will also be increasingly adding Multi-Paradigm features into our products. We've code-named the entire effort Project Ultraviolet."

"This architecture we are moving towards will tightly integrate, into 2 chips, all four paradigms. Firstly, the scalar paradigm, using one of the industry's fastest commodity 64-bit scalar processor-cores that is contained in an Intel® socket. ... For the remaining three new paradigms, they will be built into our separate Hub chip that is directly attached to the Intel socket. They are the vector, PIM (processor in memory), and application-specific (allowing for directly attachable FPGAs and user ASICs etc.) paradigms. During run-time, as the needs of the application change, the different paradigms best able to perform the task at that moment may be switched on. Thus increasing application performance and machine efficiency."

Eng Lim Goh, Ph.D.
　Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
　http://www.sgi.com/company_info/execbios/goh.html


関連記事：
"Cooler Supercomputers", Technolgy Review, February 14, 2006
　http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16338&ch=infotech
"Goh is now the leader of Project Ultraviolet, SGI's effort to develop its next generation of superclusters. The chips that SGI is designing for Ultraviolet will run applications faster -- yet use less electricity and produce less heat. Technology Review interviewed Goh about the project on February 2."

"So these would be the tenets of Ultraviolet design [more reliable memory, less communications latency, more communications bandwidth, better load balancing, and less memory latency]."


"Accelerating Knowledge Discovery", HPCwire, May 12, 2006
　http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/653963.html
"Other advanced technology features that are part of Project Ultraviolet, such as the processor-in-memory (PIM) technology and vector data movement logic, will not be implemented in the Altix 4700 but will be included in the next-generation platform, scheduled for 2008."


"Champions 2.0", March 12, 2007, Bio-IT World
　http://www.bio-itworld.com/issues/2007/march/champions/sgi/