Ralph, et al., Kathy Yelick is featured in this month's ACM Member News sidebar (p. 17). It also turns out she will be giving a lecture at SC13.
http://sc13.supercomputing.org/content/sc13-feature-acm-athena-lecturer-katherine-yelick Check it out. Larry Baker US Geological Survey 650-329-5608 ba...@usgs.gov On 6 Jun 2013, at 11:07 AM, Larry Baker wrote: > Ralph, > > I mentioned at dinner how much I like listening to UCB Prof. Kathy Yelick's > lectures. Here's some slides I found of hers. She is also associate lab > director of NERSC at LBNL. > > http://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/yelick-berkeleyview-july081.pdf > > http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/salishan/pdfs/Salishan%20slides/Yelick.pdf > > http://www.hpcsw.org/presentations/wed/yelick.pdf > > Here's the UCB web page about their view of HPC/Parallel computing. > > http://view.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Main_Page > > I think the one-way (DMA) messaging model is very important, especially when > it can be hidden and automatically (and correctly) done by the compiler > (requires new languages?). > > Any time you get a chance to hear her (or invite her to speak) you will enjoy > it. The work they are doing there will inform you to benefit your own work. > > Larry Baker > US Geological Survey > 650-329-5608 > ba...@usgs.gov > > >