№2, 2016

SUPERCOMPUTERS: CURRENT STATUS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
Rashid G. Alakbarov

The article analyzes the current status of supercomputer technologies and their distribution dynamics on different indicators. The development dynamics of supercomputers in recent years is studied (pp.24-33).

Keywords:supercomputer, real productivity, theoretical productivity, green computing, big data, flops, cluster, top500, computing systems, microprocessor.
References
  • Voevodin V.V., Voevodin Vl.V. Parallel computing, Saint-Petersburg: BHV, Petersburg, 2002, 608 pp.
  • Tanenbaum E. Computer architecture. SPB.: Petersburg, 2003, 704 pp.
  • Kornev V.V. Computing systems. M.: Gelios ARV, 2004, 512 pp.
  • Kornev V.D. Parallel computing in MPI. Novosibirsk: ICMMG SB RAS Russia, 2002, 84 pp.
  • “Tasks for supercomputers”, http://www.parallel.ru /research/ apps.html
  • V.V., Supercomputers: yesterday, today, tomorrow, http://www.nkj.ru/archive/7365/
  • http://www.top.500.org/lists/2015/11
  • Materials of Fifth Moscow Supercomputer Forum, 21.10.2014 http://www.ospcon.ru/node/107252
  • Abramov S.M., Lilitko E.P., Development status and perspectives of computing system with ultrahigh productivity, http://paco2012.ipu.ru/procdngs/ P103.pdf
  • “What is green computing or green information technologies”, http://www.nature-time.ru/2014/07/zelenyie-vyichisleniya-ili-zelenyie-informatsionnyie-tehnologii/
  • http://green500.org/lists/green2015/11
  • Landauer R. Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the IBM Journal, July. 1961, pp.183-191.
  • Bennet C.H., Landauer R. The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation. Scientific American, July 1985, pp.38-46
  • Zhyrkov A. Supercomputers: development, trends, application. Review of HPC solutions of Eurotech. Modern automatization technologies, 2014, № 2, pp.16-20.