High Productivity Computing Systems(HPCS) II: Cray

[07/02/17]
Chapel
The Cascade High-Productivity Language
　http://chapel.cs.washington.edu/
Papers and Presentations:
　Chapel Specification (version 0.702)
　Global HPCC Benchmarks in Chapel: STREAM Triad, Random Access, and FFT. For HPC Challenge BOF, SC06
　"Parallel Programmability and the Chapel Language"
　"An Approach to Data Distributions in Chapel"
　"Global-view Abstractions for User-Defined Reductions and Scans"
　"The Cascade High Productivity Language"
　"An Introduction to Chapel: Cray's High-Productivity Language"
　"Chapel: Compiler Challenges"
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High Productivity Computing Systems(HPCS) PhaseIII, 2006-11-22
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[06/04/07]
"In Cray's "Cascade," The Computer Will Adapt To The Codes",
　Steve Scott, Chief Technology Officer, Cray Inc.
　HPCwire, April 7, 2006
　http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/614695.html
HPCwire誌の HPCS特集、総論、各ベンダーの担当者の記事があります。
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[06/02/23]
"CyOptics Collaborates With Cray Inc. To Demonstrate Unprecedented
　Optical Data Transmission Rates for Future Supercomputers", May 24, 2005
　http://www.cyoptics.com/New%20Site/News/pr/pr_052405.asp
　"The demonstration project targets rates of hundreds of gigabits per second over
　 optical fiber lines and is related to Cray's participation in the DARPA High Productivity
　 Computing Systems (HPCS) program, which aims to develop high performance computing
　 systems with sustained performance of one petaflop (million billion calculations
　 per second) on real-world applications by 2010."
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[06/01/08]
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 Cray Incの動向です：


Cray Inc.のプレスリリース：
"Cray Inc. Signs $49.9 Million Agreement for Second Phase Of
　　DARPA Petaflops Computing Systems Program", July 9, 2003
　　http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle_Print&ID=429507&highlight=

"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/
　　"・Cray社
　　　　ペタフロップス超の演算処理が可能なコンピューターの実現に向け，
　　　同社と大学機関の研究パートナに3年間の研究奨励金として4990万ドルを支給。
　　　同社の子会社であるNew Technology Endeavors社とともに，メモリー・システム
　　　へのプロセサの組み込みによるメモリー性能の促進と高速でローディレイな
　　　ネットワークの構築などの領域で研究を進める。"

Cray Incのリーダは Cray Incの Chief Scientistの Burton Smith博士です(でした)。
　NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology(Thomas Sterling)
　Stanford University(William Dally)
　The University of Notre Dame(Peter Kogge)
との共同研究

Cascade(プロジェクト名称) - HPC Technology Initiatives
　http://www.cray.com/products/programs/cascade/index.html
※追加[06/01/11]：
　Cascade: Application Kernel Matrix
　　http://akm.cray.com/
Chapel(開発中のプログラミング言語): The Cascade High-Productivity Language
　http://chapel.cs.washington.edu/
　　"...its parallel concepts are most closely based on ideas from
　　 High-Performance Fortran (HPF), ZPL, and the Cray MTA's extensions
　　 to Fortran/C."
　　ZPL: A Portable, High-Performance Parallel Programming Language for
　　　　 Science and Engineering Computations
　　　Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
　　　http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/home/index.html


国際会議等での発表：
　AHPCRC - DARPA Programming Models Conference, 12-14 September 2005
　　http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS/index.html
　　"An Introduction to Chapel: Cray Cascade's High Productivity Language"
　　　 Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
　　　 http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS/presentations/Chamberlain_Chapel.pdf
　PMUA 2005: Workshop in programming models for HPCS ultra-scale applications, June 21, 2005
　　http://crd.lbl.gov/~oliker/pmuahome.html
　　　"PMUA Workshop"
　　　　Burton Smith and David Callahan, Cray, Inc.
　　　　http://crd.lbl.gov/%7eoliker/pmua/Cray-Chapel-Callahan-Smith.pdf
　Language Runtimes '04, October 28, 2004
　　http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/
　　Presentations(PPTファイルです):
　　　http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Presentations/LaR04Presentations.htm
　　　"The Cascade Petascale Architecture Architecture"
　　　　 Burton Smith, Cray Inc.
　　　"Chapel: The Cascade High Productivity Language"
　　　　 Bradford Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
　9th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and
　　Supportive Environments
　　(HIPS 2004), April 2004
　　"The Cascade High Productivity Language"
　　　 David Callahan(Cray), Bradford L. Chamberlain(Cray) and Hans P. Zima(JPL)
　　　 http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/hips/&toc=comp/proceedings/hips/2004/2151/00/2151toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/HIPS.2004.10002
　　　 http://chapel.cs.washington.edu/hips04.html


Cray Inc. のリーダを務められていた Chief Scientistの Burton Smith博士は
2005年12月 7日に Cray Inc. を離れ Microsoft社に移籍しました：
"Cray Inc. Announces Departure of Burton Smith", Nov 25, 2005
　http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=790184&highlight=
マイクロソフト：スーパーコンピューター本格参入か？[05/11/26]


関連エントリー：
　High Productivity Computing Systems(HPCS) I: 概略, 2006-01-08
　Cray: Adaptive Supercomputing Strategy, 06/03/20, 2006-03-21
　"Cray Will Leverage an "Adaptive Supercomputing" Strategy to Deliver the Next Major Productivity Breakthrough"
　　One Supercomputer Architecture Will Integrate Multiple Processing Technologies, Mar 20, 2006