Convergences of the Extremes: Computational Science meets Networked Sensors David Culler, Moderator SC2000 Panel November 10, 2000

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes2 A New Frontier for SCxy “SC is not just about supercomputing, its where the latest wave of technology gets applied to real problems” – Louis Turcotte, gen. chair SC2000 SC has been “riding the CMOS wave” 88-92: Rise of the “killer micro” 93-99: Emergence of the “killer network” –single chip CMOS networks of the CM-5 and Paragon now the heart of clusters, gigabit ethernet,... along with other emerging technologies –visualization, haptics,... Panel Goal: open your eyes to a new frontier

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes3 Where is CMOS going? Not just Moore’s law Micro Electical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) –rich array of sensors are becoming cheap and tiny Imagine, all sorts of chips that are connected to the physical world and to cyberspace! LNA mixer PLL baseband filters I  Q  Low-power Wireless Communication

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes4 We are seeing the first signs

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes5 Commonality at the Extremes Pushing performance of available resources to solve problems Pushing the technological edge Complex applications Packaging, Power Management Long running Communication Critical Simplicity Highly Parallel Programming / Operation Faults, Failures, Availability

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes6 Tapping Experience of SC Community Extensive instrumentation and measurement Extensive sensor development and use Wide-scale distributed computing Vast, embedded data sets Serious parallel Programming

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes7 Some of the Opportunities Integrating measurement with real-time modeling Complete scientific data processing and analysis Distributed, integrated sensor networks Computational modeling applied to the technology itself Sensor technology applied to high performance systems management...

11/10/2000SC2000 Extremes8 The Panel Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, ISI – network perspective Wahid Hermina, Sandia National Laboratories – MEMS technology perspective Larry Arnstein, University of Washington – Deeply Instrumented Laboratory James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley, - Computational Modeling minute presentations followed by discussion