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Overview
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Speakers
ISC Award
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Steve J. Wallach
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Chiaro Networks, Richardson, TX, USA
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Short résumé :
Steve Wallach is currently vice president of technology for Chiaro Networks, an adviser to CenterPoint ventures partners and
a consultant to the US DOE ASCI program. Previous he was co-founder of Convex Computers, their chief technology
officer and senior vice president of development. Prior to Convex, he was manager of Advanced Development for Data General.
His efforts on the MV/8000 are chronicled in The Soul of a New Machine. Wallach has 33 patents and is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Presentation of Steve J. Wallach
on Wednesday 10:00-12:00, June 23, 2004 during the session
"I. Opening Session"
ISC2004 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:
The Search for the Softron - Will we be able to develop software for Petaflop/s Computing?
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Abstract:
Hardware performance increases with no end in sight. New technologies, consistent and aligned with Moore's Law provide both the commercial and scientific basis for this view. However, software and application development has not been so fortunate. There seems to be no fundamental, underlying physics or other guiding principles.
We did speak of the Y2K problem, however for Petaflop/s computing, we will experience the C2K problem (where 'c' is the speed of light).
This talk will attempt to derive some of the guiding principles for Petaflop Software development. We will use existing software 'Gedanken -Experiment' to derive some existing principles. We will then embark on the search for the elusive 'Softron. This search will ultimately lead to new principles of development as well as the appropriate models for programming Petaflop/s computing systems.
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