2022-10-28-talk-fwam/intro.tex

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\section{Introduction}

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% FUTURE PROOFING OUT METHODS AND CODES
% Domain Specific Languages ⇒ Domain Specific Architectures

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  % exascale computing

  % heterogeneous computing, specialized hardware accelerators: GPUs, ASICS, FPGA, Tensor processing units
  % AMD GPUs becoming more common, Intel Xe GPU to feature in Aurora suprcomputer

  % energy efficiency

  % new memory technologies:
  % - Hybrid Memory Cube
  % - DDR6
  % - High Bandwidth Memory (HBM, HBM2, ...)

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  % end of frequency scaling
  % post Moore's law
  % Dennard scaling
  % multi-core / many-core
  % vector lengths (512-bit now standard in most CPU cores)

  % rise of ARM (RISC ISA)

  % transistor counts increasing -- multi-package CPUs (NUMA) -- AMD Risen 64 cores

  %https://www.karlrupp.net/2018/02/42-years-of-microprocessor-trend-data/

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      \includegraphics[width=0.99\textwidth]{figs/sustained-memory-bw-falling-graph-mccalpin-1000x}

      {\footnotesize John McCalpin - Memory bandwidth and system balance in HPC systems, 2016}
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  % programming languages: interpreted, JIT, code-generation,
  % - new languages (modern C++ - SCC sciware)
  % - features

  # know how your programming language works
  # don't iterate over billion element array in python

  % compilers
  # compiler options for best performance

  % profilers and debuggers

  % optimized libraries for scientific computing: (BLAS, LAPACK, FFTW)
  % use whenever it makes sense to do so

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\begin{frame} \frametitle{Resources}{} %<<<
  % SCC Sciware lectures
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