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Title: Analytical Cost Metrics : Days of Future Past

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1422949· OSTI ID:1422949
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  1. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

As we move towards the exascale era, the new architectures must be capable of running the massive computational problems efficiently. Scientists and researchers are continuously investing in tuning the performance of extreme-scale computational problems. These problems arise in almost all areas of computing, ranging from big data analytics, artificial intelligence, search, machine learning, virtual/augmented reality, computer vision, image/signal processing to computational science and bioinformatics. With Moore’s law driving the evolution of hardware platforms towards exascale, the dominant performance metric (time efficiency) has now expanded to also incorporate power/energy efficiency. Therefore the major challenge that we face in computing systems research is: “how to solve massive-scale computational problems in the most time/power/energy efficient manner?”

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1422949
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-18-21279
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English