A Second Smattering of SC09 Videos

Most major cities have symbols or icons that identify them. For instance, Philadelphia has the Liberty Bell and New York has the Empire State Building. Portland has the majestic Mount Hood as its moniker. Of course, back east we don’t call those things mountains, we use their proper name — a volcano. Mount Hood is considered dormant, but in reality it has an estimated 3-7% chance of erupting in the next thirty years, which, by the way, is about 2.5 million times more likely than winning the Power Ball lottery. (A Power Ball ticket has a 1 in 80 million chance of winning). The USGS characterizes it as “potentially active.” Let’s keep that in mind next time we have the SuperComputing conference in Portland. Next year we head to New Orleans.

The videos for this week are from Intel, Numascale, and Mellanox. As I watched these videos, I realized…

1. Smashing (and) the HPL Benchmark
2. Small Hardware and Big Software at SC10
3. High Performance Community
4. Round Two of the OpenMP-MPI Smack-Down
5. Smart Clusters: Intelligence Is As Intelligence Does