Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta writes that the road to Exascale will clearly be built on heterogeneous systems.
In a freshly published report, industry analyst firm IDC argues that the fastest path to this exaflop milestone is through heterogeneous designs. They state that x86 processors will not be enough to meet the performance and power goals that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has outlined – 1,000 times faster than the current petaflop systems and 50-100 times more energy efficient. Given the daunting challenges of cost, power consumption, application performance and space, IDC concludes that heterogeneous systems offer the best solution to achieve exascale performance.
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