A recent article from The Next Platform, an online publication that offers in-depth coverage of high-end computing, recently featured an article entitled “New Memory Challenges Legacy Approaches to HPC Code.” The article discusses a paper co-authored by CCR researcher Ron Brightwell that was published last November as part of the Workshop on Memory Centric Programming for HPC at the SC’17 conference. In the article, Brightwell and one of his co- authors, Yonghong Yan from the University of South Carolina, discuss the programming challenges created by recent advances in memory technology and the deepening memory hierarchy. The article examines the notion of memory-centric programming and how programming systems need to evolve to provide better abstractions to help insulate application developers from the complexities associated with current and future advances in memory technology for high-performance computing systems.
