High Productivity Computing Systems(HPCS) III: IBM

High Productivity Computing Systems(HPCS) VI: IBM 2, 2006-04-07
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"IBM and Agilent Technologies Launch $30 Million Interconnect Program", 11 Sep 2003
　http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/5828.wss
　"IBM and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that they are teaming up to advance
　 the performance of optical interconnects as part of a multi-year, $30 million project with
　 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)."
　"Key goals of IBM and Agilent's program include:

　　　aggregate data rates up to 1 Tbps per module;
　　　high per-channel rates for optimal cost and power consumption --
　　　　up to 15 Gbps for parallel links, and up to 40 Gbps for components;
　　　small form factor modules less than two square centimeters in area;
　　　ultra low power (5 to 10 milliwatts/Gbps); and
　　　high levels of integration to allow tight coupling with computer chips for optical transceivers and waveguide interconnects.

　"The team is expected to demonstrate the enormous communication bandwidths needed for
　 future servers such as those under the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) initiative.
　 IBM's HPCS project (called PERCS, or "Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System") will
　 investigate the use of hundreds or thousands of terabit-class optical interconnects to overcome
　 the bandwidth limitation of today's server interconnects."

"Exploitation of optical interconnects in future server architectures",
　Alan F. Benner, IBM Systems and Technology Group, et al.,
　IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 49, Number 4/5, 2005.
　http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/494/tocpdf.html
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　IBM Petascale Strategy Workshop, May 3-4, 2005
　　IBM Research Advanced Computing Technology Center
　　http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/actc/workshop.shtml
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DARPA(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency：米国防総省高等研究計画局)
High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS)での IBMの動向です：

IBMのプレスリリース：
"IBM wins DARPA funding", 10 Jul 2003
　http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/5487.wss

"米国防総省のスパコン開発プログラム第2段階に突入，
　 米IBM，米Cray，米Sunに総額1億4600万ドルの奨励金を授与", 2003年07月11日
　http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/ITPro/USNEWS/20030710/9/
　　"・IBM社
　　　　多数の異なる作業に適用可能なコンピュータを設計するためのPERCS
　　　(Productive，Easy-to-use，Reliable Computing Systems)プログラムに
　　　向けた研究開発を行なう。5330万ドルが支給された。"

IBMのリーダは IBM Austin Research Laboratoryの Mootaz Elnozahy博士です。

PERCS(Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computer Systems)の Webページは IBMに
ないようですが、開発中のプログラミング言語 X10については：
The X10 Programming Language
　http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/x10.index.html
PERCSについてはピッツバーグ大学に：
　University of Pittsburgh P.E.R.C.S. Project
　　http://www.cs.pitt.edu/percs/
　　Research
　　　Compiled Communication for Parallel Programs
　　　Dual Electronic-Optical Interconnection Networks
　　　Optical Circuit Switching Networks
もあります。

国際会議等での発表：
　HPCS SC2005 Workshop, November 14, 2005
　　http://highproductivity.org/Nov2005.htm
　　"Toward Economically Viable Peta-Scale Computing"
　　　 Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab
　　　 http://highproductivity.org/Nov05/2-IBM%20Talk.pdf
　Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), October 2005
　　"X10: An Object-Oriented Approach to Non-Uniform Cluster Computing"
　　　Philippe Charles, Christopher Donawa, Kemal Ebcioglu, Christian Grothoff(UCLA), Allan Kielstra, Christoph von Praun Vijay Sarsawat and Vivek Sarkar
　　　http://www.research.ibm.com/people/p/praun/oopsla_onward05.pdf
　　　http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094811.1094852&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=1094811&part=Proceedings&WantType=Proceedings&title=Conference%20on%20Object%20Oriented%20Programming%20Systems%20Languages%20and%20Applications&CFID=61763287&CFTOKEN=64823959
　Workshop on Application Specific Processors, September 22, 2005
　　Keynote Speech:
　　"IBM PERCS Project: Hardware-software co-design of a future supercomputer
　　 for high programmer productivity"
　　　 Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM Research
　　　 http://dogbert.eng.umd.edu/wasp05/keynote.pdf
　AHPCRC - DARPA Programming Models Conference, 12-14 September 2005
　　http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS/index.html
　　"An Object-Oriented Approach to PGAS Programming"
　　　 Vivek Sarkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
　　　 http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS/presentations/Sarkar_X10.pdf
　PMUA 2005: Workshop in programming models for HPCS ultra-scale applications, June 21, 2005
　　http://crd.lbl.gov/~oliker/pmuahome.html
　　　"X10 --- a New Programming Model for Productive Scalable Parallel Programming"
　　　　Vivek Sarkar, IBM
　　　　http://crd.lbl.gov/%7eoliker/pmua/IBM-X10-Sarkar.pdf
　Language Runtimes '04, October 28, 2004
　　http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/
　　Presentations:
　　　http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Presentations/LaR04Presentations.htm
　　"X10: A Programming Model for Hierarchical Heterogeneous Parallelism"
　　　 Vivek Sarkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
　　　 http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Author_Files/Presentations/Vivek_Sarkar_LaR_04_V2.pdf
　　　 http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Author_Files/Papers/Vivek_Sarkar_LaR_04_Paper_V1.pdf
　Invitational Workshop on the Future of Virtual Execution Environments, September 15-17, 2004
　　http://www.research.ibm.com/vee04/talks.html
　　"Language and Virtual Machine Challenges for Large-Scale Parallel Systems"
　　　 Vivek Sarkar, IBM Research
　　　 http://www.research.ibm.com/vee04/Sarkar.pdf
　　　　☆この資料によると、PERCSの System Software(Kernel)は K42だそうです：
　　　　　The K42 Project
　　　　　　http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/K42/
　The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Meeting
　　"PERCS: IBM Effort in HPCS", Augst 06, 2003
　　　 Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab
　　　 http://www.ncsc.org/casc/meetings/Vision-Public.pdf


関連 Web記事：
"IBMがスーパーコンピュータに賭ける理由", 2004/01/08
　http://japan.cnet.com/interview/story/0,2000050154,20063533,00.htm
　　"TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently Adaptive Processing System)では、
　　 IBMとテキサス大学が、毎秒1兆のアプリケーションを動かせる
　　「チップ上のスーパーコンピュータ」を研究中だ。"
"米IBM、ワンチップにスーパーコンピュータの性能を詰め込む", 2003/08/27
　http://www.japan.cnet.com/news/ent/story/0,2000047623,20060627,00.htm
　TRIPS (The Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System)
　The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
　　http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/trips/
　　TRIPSのメンバーが所属する：
　　CART (Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory)
　　　http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/


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　High Productivity Computing Systems(HPCS) I: 概略, 2006-01-08