Berkeley Lab - Scientific Computing Seminar

Date:

Friday, March 21, 2008

Time:

10:00am-11:00am

Location:

Building 50F, 1647 Conference Room

Seminar Speaker:

Samuel Cable
Engineer Research & Development Center Major Shared Resource Center

Title:

Application Benchmarking in the Department of Defense HPC Procurement Process

Abstract:

The Department of Defense (DoD) performs an annual procurement process, called "Technology Insertion" (TI), to purchase new HPC equipment for its four Major Shared Resource Centers and several Distributed Centers. Central to this process is the annual creation and testing of application benchmark suites for the purpose of judging the relative performance of both vendor HPC offerings and existing, production HPC platforms. The process of creating the application benchmarks, their place in the DoD HPC procurement process, and trends in HPC platforms the benchmarks have shown in the past several years, will be discussed. Time permitting, Dr. Cable will also discuss his research in magnetohydrodynamic studies of solar wind phenomena, carried out on HPC platforms purchased under the TI process.

Sponsor of Seminar:

Erich Strohmaier

Scientific Computing

Contact Esmond G. Ng EGNg@lbl.gov