Talk: "It’s only 1,000 PetaFLOPS: The evolution of supercomputing from the Cray-1 to exascale in really big steps" by Steve Oberlin
- Event Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016
- Time: 5:30 pm (CDT)
- Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Cost: Free Admission, RSVPs requested by May 24
Steve Oberlin, chief technology officer for accelerated computing at NVIDIA, will summarize the path of supercomputing architectures and technologies from the earliest supercomputers to today's immense clusters, discuss the implications for programmability, algorithms, and applications as key advances changed the system landscape, and preview future technology advances and implications as we assault exascale performance levels.
Oberlin’s 35-year large scale computing technology career began while working as a designer and engineer on the Cray-2 and Cray-3 supercomputers. Oberlin left Cray/SGI to found Unlimited Scale, Inc., in July, 2000 and he spent 13 years creating new cloud computing technologies. He is now at NVIDIA and is responsible for the Tesla roadmap and architecture.
Additionally, the Museum will offer extended hours by remaining open continuously from 9:00 am–7:30 pm.
This NCSA event is presented in conjunction with the "NCSA 30th Anniversary" Exhibit which is on display through July 2016.