A (Hypothetical) Data to Discovery Engine

AstroInformatics 2010
Caltech, June 16-19, 2010

Mark Stalzer

High performance computing systems are typically constructed from easily available parts, just organized differently and scaled to process extreme workloads. The most power efficient petascale machine as of 2010 is Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Another interesting machine is the Apple iPad which uses very low power System on a Chip/Package on Package technologies. This talk explores the question of “what happens when you cross Roadrunner with iPads”?

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