31 October 2005 / Research Council
HIGH END COMPUTING STRATEGY COMMITTEE / HEC 8-05
strategic framework for high end computing review
Emma Jones
Introduction
- The Emerging Technologies Workshop was held in London on 17th/18th October. Participants included members of the TWP, delegates from the US and from industry. The full delegate list is given at the end of this paper.Hugh Pilcher-Clayton, Jennifer Houghton and Emma Jones attended from EPSRC.
- The workshop was run using an open space facilitation technique. Instead of a fixed agenda decided in advance by EPSRC, the delegates spent the first morning identifying issues for discussion within the given remit: “Emerging Technologies in HPC over the next 5-10 years and their possible impact on future UK or European Services after HECToR.”
- As a result of the morning discussion, two sessions were run on the first afternoon: Architectures (managed by Ian Reid),and Software Tools and Applications (managed by Mike Payne). Three sessions were run on the second morning: Disruptive Technologies (managed by Ash Vadgama), Software - Systems Tools and Enterprise Tools(managed by Jay Boisseau), and User Issues and Outreach (managed by Martyn Guest). The output from these sessions is included as an Appendix.
- During the second afternoon a plenary session was run in which each discussion group fed back key points from their session and any actions they had identified.
- HSC is asked to consider how to take forward the proposed actions.
Delegates:
Phil Andrews (San Diego Supercomputing Centre) Jay Boisseau (Texas Supercomputing Centre), Simon Cox (Southampton), Steve Dawes (GCHQ), Jack Dongarra (Oak Ridge), Martyn Guest (Daresbury), John Gurd (Manchester), Richard Kenway (Edinburgh), Mike Levine (Pittsburgh), Simon McIntosh-Smith (Clearspeed), Mike Payne (Cambridge), Jose Munoz (NSF), Ben Ralston (AWE), Ian Reid (NAG), Duncan Roweth (Quadrics), Peter Taylor (Warwick), Ash Vadgama (AWE).
HSC Paper - UK Strategy For High End Computing