Forget Zettascale, Trouble Is Brewing In Scaling Exascale Supercomputers
HPCWire, Tuesday, November 14,2023
In 2021, Intel famously declared its goal to get to zettascale supercomputing by 2027, or scaling today's Exascale computers by 1,000 times.
Moving forward to 2023, attendees said challenges are scaling up performance even within Exaflops at the Supercomputing 2023 conference, which is being held in Denver.
The move to CPU-GPU architecture has helped scale performance, but other concerns - such as architectural limitations and sustainability issues - are making it difficult to scale performance, officials at Top500 said.
In fact, at the current rate, supercomputers may not reach 10 Exaflops of performance by 2030. Also, the performance growth has fallen off the last couple of years despite new Exascale systems entering the Top500 list.