HPC 2017-18 | High-performance computing


Continental ambitions


Robert Roe looks at European and North American efforts to establish exascale computing programmes 14


As the supercomputing industry approaches the exascale, Europe and the US have developed projects to deliver this huge jump in computing performance. Using novel technologies and building partnerships between hardware vendors, academic and research centres, the two groups are hoping to deliver exascale with very different computing architectures. Te US aims to continue with Intel CPUs with


accelerators from Nvidia or Intel, while Europe aims to create an ARM-FPGA hybrid computing architecture. While they are very different technologies, both groups face similar hurdles in delivering energy-efficiency and parallelism on an unprecedented scale.


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