Vetter J.S. (ed.) Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale

Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2013. — 721 p. — (Computational Science Series). — ISBNr-13: 978-1-4665-6835-8.The book focuses on the ecosystems surrounding the world’s leading centers for high performance computing (HPC). It covers many of the important factors involved in each ecosystem: computer architectures, software, applications, facilities, and sponsors.
The first part of the book examines significant trends in HPC systems, including computer architectures, applications, performance, and software. It discusses the growth from terascale to petascale computing and the influence of the TOP500 and Green500 lists. The second part of the book provides a comprehensive overview of 18 HPC ecosystems from around the world. Each chapter in this section describes programmatic motivation for HPC and their important applications; a flagship HPC system overview covering computer architecture, system software, programming systems, storage, visualization, and analytics support; and an overview of their data center/facility. The last part of the book addresses the role of clouds and grids in HPC, including chapters on the Magellan, FutureGrid, and LLGrid projects.
With contributions from top researchers directly involved in designing, deploying, and using these supercomputing systems, this book captures a global picture of the state of the art in HPC.Trends in HPC
Contemporary High Performance Computing.
HPC Challenge: Design, History, and Implementation Highlights.
The Green500 List: A Look Back to Look Forward.
Contemporary HPC
Tera 100.
The Mole-8.5 Supercomputing System.
Supercomputing in the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
Keeneland: Computational Science Using Heterogeneous GPU Computing.
Blue Gene/P: JUGENE.
Roadrunner: The Dawn of Accelerated Computing.
Blue Gene/Q: Sequoia and Mira.
Lomonosov: Supercomputing at Moscow State University.
Pleiades: NASA's First Petascale Supercomputer.
The Blue Waters Super-System for Super-Science.
Kraken: The First Academic Petaop Computer.
Titan: 20-Petaop Cray XK7 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Blacklight: Coherent Shared Memory for Enabling Science.
Gordon: A Novel Architecture for Data Intensive Computing.
Monte Rosa: Architectural Features and a Path Toward Exascale.
Tianhe-1A Supercomputer: System and Application.
TSUBAME2.0: The First Petascale Supercomputer in Japan and the Greatest Production in the World.
HA-PACS: A Highly Accelerated Parallel Advanced System for Computational Sciences.
Clouds and Grids in HPC
Magellan: A Testbed to Explore Cloud Computing for Science.
FutureGrid: A Recon_gurable Testbed for Cloud, HPC, and Grid Computing.
LLGrid: Supercomputer for Sensor Processing.