[Beowulf] "NNSA’s first really big heterogeneous supercomputer"

Chris Samuel chris at csamuel.org
Thu Nov 1 02:10:54 PDT 2018


On Thursday, 1 November 2018 4:58:30 AM AEDT Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:

> I read a publication from LANL on it's architecture years ago, and I believe
> to had to program for all 3 different processors to take advantage of it's
> architecture. (If soneone knows for sure, please correct me if I'm wrong.)  
> I'd say that's even more heterogeneous than what we are seeing today
> (CPU + GPU).

I think you're bang on the money, here's a presentation from LANL
about Roadrunner which includes programming on slide 25.

https://www.lanl.gov/conferences/salishan/salishan2007/Roadrunner-Salishan-Ken%20Koch.pdf

All the best,
Chris
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