Intel keynoter: Power consumption challenges litter path to exascale computing

摘要

Thanks to parallelism and technology scaling, exascale computing will become a reality before the decade is out, but it won't live up to its full potential unless fundamental power consumption barriers are overcome, according to Intel Fellow Shekhar Borkar. Delivering a keynote address at the Semicon West fab tool vendor tradeshow here last Tuesday (July 10), Borkar noted that exascale computing is expected to become a reality by the end of the decade. By about 2018, engineers are expected to create an exascale supercomputer-capable of a 1,000-fold performance improvement compared with today's state-of-the-art petaflop systems.