Future: Petaflops ( fl pt ops/s)
A Pflop for 1 second ? a typical workstation computing for 1 year.
From an algorithmic standpoint
- concurrency
- data locality
- latency & sync
- floating point accuracy
May be feasible and “affordable” by the year 2010
- dynamic redistribution of workload
- new language and constructs
- role of numerical libraries
- algorithm adaptation to hardware failure