Convergences of the Extremes: Computational Science meets Networked Sensors David Culler, Moderator SC2000 Panel November 10, 2000
Jan 04, 2016
Convergences of the Extremes: Computational Science meets
Networked Sensors
David Culler, Moderator
SC2000 Panel
November 10, 2000
11/10/2000 SC2000 Extremes 2
A New Frontier for SCxy
• “SC is not just about supercomputing, its where the latest wave of technology gets applied to real problems” – Louis Turcotte, gen. chair SC2000
• SC has been “riding the CMOS wave”• 88-92: Rise of the “killer micro”• 93-99: Emergence of the “killer network”
– single chip CMOS networks of the CM-5 and Paragon now the heart of clusters, gigabit ethernet, ...
• along with other emerging technologies– visualization, haptics, ...
• Panel Goal: open your eyes to a new frontier
11/10/2000 SC2000 Extremes 3
Where is CMOS going?
• Not just Moore’s law• Micro Electical Mechanical Systems
(MEMS)– rich array of sensors are becoming cheap and
tiny
• Imagine, all sorts of chips that are connected to the physical world and to cyberspace!
LNA
mixerPLL baseband
filters
I Q • Low-power Wireless Communication
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We are seeing the first signs
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Commonality at the Extremes
• Pushing performance of available resources to solve problems
• Pushing the technological edge
• Complex applications
• Packaging, Power Management
• Long running
• Communication Critical
• Simplicity
• Highly Parallel Programming / Operation
• Faults, Failures, Availability
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Tapping Experience of SC Community
• Extensive instrumentation and measurement
• Extensive sensor development and use
• Wide-scale distributed computing
• Vast, embedded data sets
• Serious parallel Programming
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Some of the Opportunities
• Integrating measurement with real-time modeling
• Complete scientific data processing and analysis
• Distributed, integrated sensor networks
• Computational modeling applied to the technology itself
• Sensor technology applied to high performance systems management
• ...
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The Panel
• Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, ISI – network perspective
• Wahid Hermina, Sandia National Laboratories – MEMS technology perspective
• Larry Arnstein, University of Washington – Deeply Instrumented Laboratory
• James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley, - Computational Modeling
• 10-15 minute presentations followed by discussion