Energy-efficient and high-performance processing of large-scale parallel applications in data centers

Abstract

Next generation supercomputers require drastically better energy efficiency to allow these systems to scale to exaflop computing levels. Virtually all major processor vendors and companies such as AMD, Intel, and IBM are developing high-performance and highly energy-efficient multicore processors and dedicating their current and future development and manufacturing to multicore products. It is conceivable that future multicore architectures can hold dozens or even hundreds of cores on a single die [3].