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HPCI systems research is a critical activity in the ASU HPC group. Ongoing projects include Dynamic Virtual Clustering in conjunction with Cluster Resources, Inc. and a new toolset for highly parallel signal processing in conjunction with Pentum Group, Inc. and the US Airforce.
Dynamic Virtual Clustering is a system that deploys virtual machines (VMs) in a multi-cluster environment to improve job workload performance.
The High Performance Computing Initiative at Arizona State University has engaged with Pentum Group, Inc. (PGI) in an effort to construct new streams-based approaches to parallel processing. The emphasis of the project has been on developing new techniques that both provide semantics useful for supporting a range of signal processing applications, as well as being flexible enough to provide easy portability across a range of current and emerging computing architectures, from computing clusters to Field Programmable Gate Arrays and other hardware accelerators.
The Paradigms for Parallel Computation Project is performing a three phase evaluation of emerging ideas to boost productivity for programmers of high performance computing systems, and in particular to determine which of these ideas could have near-term impact on DoD relevant applications and systems.
Upcoming generations of processors will pack tens of processor's onto a single silicon chip. HPC systems composed of these chips will in 3-4 years be capable of executing hundreds of thousands of simultaneous threads of a single program. In this project, the infrastructure required for programmiprogramming at this scale is being created, including debuggers, compiler extensions, and run-time support. Currently in development is the Offline Parallel Debugger. Researcher: Dan Stanzione. Collaborators: Intel Corporation, University of New Mexico.
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Saturday November 21, 2009 
