Co-Design of Systems and Applications for Exascale (Dagstuhl Perspectives Worksop 12212)
Abstract
With more and more machines achieving petascale capabilities, the focus is shifting towards the next big barrier, exascale computing and its possibilities and challenges. There is a common agreement that using machines on this level will definitively require co-design of systems and applications, and corresponding actions on different levels of software, hardware, and the infrastructure. Defining the vision of exascale computing for the community as providing capabilities on levels of performance at extreme scales, and identifying the role and mission of the involved experts from computer science has laid the basis for further discussions. By reflecting on the current state of petascale machines and technologies and identifying known bottlenecks and pitfalls looming ahead, this workshop derived the concrete barriers on the road towards exascale and presented some ideas on how to overcome them, as well as raising open issues to be addressed in future leading-edge research on this topic.