PERCS
Event details
| Date | 05.12.2012 |
| Hour | 02:00 › 03:15 |
| Speaker |
Ram Rajamony IBM Research |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
In 2001, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called for the creation of commercially viable computing systems that would be both highly productive and high performing. IBM's response to this challenge was called the Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computing System (PERCS) and is offered by IBM as the P775 high-performance computing system. PERCS achieves significantly higher efficiencies when compared to other state-of-the-art high-performance computing systems, especially on workloads that require communication. It does so through tight integration of compute, interconnect, storage, and software elements. This talk will describe the PERCS architecture, some of the design decisions that went into its creation, and illustrate system characteristics that can be exploited for high performance and productivity.
Biography
Ram Rajamony is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research in Austin TX. He received a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree from Rice University in 1998. Ram is the primary lead for performance on the DARPA-sponsored PERCS project and has had a significant role in its design, implementation, test, as well as in application development. He has received multiple awards from IBM for his work on high-performance computing and has authored or coauthored more than 25 patents and 25 technical papers. Dr. Rajamony was designated an IBM Master Inventor in 2008 and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also coaching a team of 9-year old kids for a First Lego League competition, a task that is proving to be considerably harder than all the PERCS work he has done.
In 2001, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called for the creation of commercially viable computing systems that would be both highly productive and high performing. IBM's response to this challenge was called the Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computing System (PERCS) and is offered by IBM as the P775 high-performance computing system. PERCS achieves significantly higher efficiencies when compared to other state-of-the-art high-performance computing systems, especially on workloads that require communication. It does so through tight integration of compute, interconnect, storage, and software elements. This talk will describe the PERCS architecture, some of the design decisions that went into its creation, and illustrate system characteristics that can be exploited for high performance and productivity.
Biography
Ram Rajamony is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research in Austin TX. He received a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree from Rice University in 1998. Ram is the primary lead for performance on the DARPA-sponsored PERCS project and has had a significant role in its design, implementation, test, as well as in application development. He has received multiple awards from IBM for his work on high-performance computing and has authored or coauthored more than 25 patents and 25 technical papers. Dr. Rajamony was designated an IBM Master Inventor in 2008 and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also coaching a team of 9-year old kids for a First Lego League competition, a task that is proving to be considerably harder than all the PERCS work he has done.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EcoCloud - Dr Anne WIGGINS Deputy Director
Contact
- EcoCloud - Valérie Locca