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The workshops are part of a collaboration formed to bring to life a concept that was developed in 2000 at HLRS and called the “Teraflop Workbench”. The purpose of the collaboration into which HLRS and NEC entered in 2004 was to turn this concept into a real tool for scientists and engineers. Two main goals were set out by both partners:
• To show for a variety of applications from different fields that a sustained level of performance in the range of several Teraflops is possible. • To show that different platforms (vector based systems, cluster systems) can be coupled to create a hybrid supercomputer system from which applications can harness an even higher level of sustained performance.
In 2004 both partners signed an agreement for the “Teraflop Workbench Project” that provides hardware and software resources worth about 6 MEuro (about 7 Million $ US) to users and in addition provides the funding for 6 scientists for 5 years. These scientists are working together with application developers and users to tune their applications. Furthermore, this working group looks into existing algorithms in order to identify bottlenecks with respect to modern architectures. Wherever necessary these algorithms are improved, optimized, or even new algorithms are developed. |
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