Fujitsu / Penguin Computing / Hoover / GPU / Imagination Technologies / IBM Research / AMD / Nvidia / US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / IBM / Gartner Inc. / Cray Inc. / CINECA IBM Fermi Italy / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Khronos Group / Intel / Cray Research / Leavitt Communications / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
France / Japan / Brazil / United Kingdom / China / India / Germany / Russia / United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Facility
National Supercomputing Center / Stanford University / Tianjin National University of Defense Technology Tianhe-1A China / Queen’s University / BACKGROUND University of Illinois / National Supercomputer Center / University of California / University of Tennessee / Georgia Institute / US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / RIKEN Advanced Institute / US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
exascale computing / information-technology industry / petascale computing project / times more energy / exascale systems / communications semiconductor cores / software developers / petaflops systems / possible oil deposits / communications / supercomputer systems / energy / buffer management / energy consumption / financial services / lower-latency routers / interchip communications / heterogeneous processing / disruptive hardware technologies / software paradigms / energy efficiency / social networks / computing / hybrid cooling systems / minimum energy consumption / decrease energy consumption / 3D chip / software / large processing system / exascale computing faces / technology topics / highperformance systems / /
OperatingSystem
Linux / Fermi / /
Organization
US Department of Energy / National Center for Supercomputing Applications / HSA Foundation / Computer Science Department / European Union / RIKEN Advanced Institute / University of California / San Diego / Tianjin National University / University of Tennessee / National Supercomputer Center / University of Illinois / Georgia Institute of Technology / Stanford University / National Supercomputing Center / IEEE Computer Society / /
Person
Lee Garber / Richard Vuduc / Alan Lee / Michael Rosenfield / Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos / Carl Claunch / Jack Dongarra / Source / John Shalf / William Dally / Bill Blake / Nathan Brookwood / Tony KingSmith / Arend Dittmer / Michael Taylor / Bill Kramer / Neal Leavitt / /
Position
director of computing systems / president / senior vice president and chief technology officer / director of product marketing / head / chief scientist and senior vice president of research / Professor / Editor / vice president of research and advanced development / professor and director of research / vice president of marketing / deputy director / assistant professor / vice president and distinguished analyst / Top500 project professor / /
T echn o logy N e w s Big Iron Moves Toward Exascale Computing Neal Leavitt