Abstract:
NERSC provides production computing to the DOE Office of Science community
with over 3000 users working on 300 distinct projects. The NERSC systems
include the Cray XT4 system, know as Franklin, which has over 100 Teraflops
of peak performance and a sustained application performance of 19 Teraflops.
In addition, NERSC provides archival and online storage, cluster computing,
and application consulting services. I will highlight some of the science
activities performed at NERSC and describe two new strategic directions for
the next 10 years. The first significantly expands the support for
analysis of large scientific data sets through a combination of hardware,
software, and service activities. The second is to re-think high end
computing system design from a power-efficiency perspective, which I believe
is necessary to reach the target of Exascale computing. I will talk about
initial efforts in these two areas, both using an application-driven
approach to finding a general solution to these problems.