The Future of Scalable Scientific Computing
Agenda
Today
Who is Compaq?
Product and Market Strategies for HPTC
Compaq AlphaServer light-house accounts
Largest Civilian-Research Supercomputer
Some Bioinformatics Customers
Some Engineering/Manufacturing Customers
The next few years
The Alpha Microprocessor
Alpha EV7
PowerPoint Presentation
EV7-based system
Alpha EV8
Simultaneous multithreading
Architectural Abstraction
System Block Diagram
Further out
Computer Architecture
Why GP COTS?
Parallel Programming Paradigms
Parallel Programming
Operating software
Applications
More on applications …
Computing Infrastructure
Market Dynamics
Far out
Raymond Kurzweil: “The Singularity is Near”
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Kurzweil’s Argument
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Where do we go from here? One view: the mind is a program running on the brain
A complementary view
Some of this is already underway …
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Author: Dr. Martin Walker
Further information: Seminar presented at NSC in Linköping, June 8, 2001
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