Designing Development Readiness Indicators and Roadmap for Petaflops Scale Supercomputers

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IT Faculty, ICT Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Recently, supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) have caused significant progress in many fields, including industrial and research fields of artificial intelligence, data science, big data, Internet of Things, as well as large scale web applications. Regarding this characteristic, the supercomputer field becomes one of the strategic issues in developed and developing countries. Successful HPC development requires a robust infrastructure that effectively depends on a multidimensional policy and roadmap, covering all aspects of HPC services. In this regard, a comprehensive roadmap is necessary to design and achieve high-performance computing services. This paper proposes a comprehensive roadmap focusing on several strategic areas, including research activities, infrastructure and platforms, data processing, standard regulations, applied services, and business development. The roadmap follows an evolutionary strategy where strategic regions evolve in parallel. Also, in this paper, the Supercomputing Development Readiness Indicators (SDRI) inspired by the "Network Readiness Indicators" (NRI) are presented and the proposed roadmap uses them. The proposed roadmap is then compared with two other hypothetical roadmaps with the timing and priority of different strategic areas in terms of progress and completion time. Evaluation of the proposed roadmap based on the SDRI specification shows the effectiveness of the proposed method in creating and developing the services of a petaflops scale supercomputer.

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 Davood Maleki is a faculty member of ICT Research Institute (ITRC). He has a master's degree in computer software engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Currently, as a colleague and supervisor in fundamental, practical and strategic projects in Research Institute of Communication and Information Technology is working.
 Mohammad Reza Ahmadi is an associate Professor at ICT Research Institute (ITRC). He received his Doctor degree in Communication Networks from TokyoInstitute of Technology, Tokyo, in 1997. Currently he is the project manager and researcher in IT department of Research Institute of ITC. His research interests are resource optimization in data centers, virtualization technology, cloud computing, and Big data applications.
Alireza Mansouri is an assistant Professor at ICT Research Institute (ex ITRC: Iran Telecommunication Research Center). He received his BSc and MSc from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran-Iran, both in Computer Engineering- Software and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering- Information Technology from University of Tehran, Tehran-Iran. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Agent-Based Modeling, Internet of Things, Social Networks, and Computational Social Science.
 Ehsan Arianyan is an assistant Professor and director of the Information Technology Platform Group of ICT Research Institute (ITRC). He received his BSc from Iran University of Science and Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in, 2008, 2010 and 2015, respectively. He ranked 1'st among the graduate students of the Iran University of Science and Technology in the bachelor level and also among the graduate students of Amirkabir University of Technology in both master and doctoral levels. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed papers as well as 10 books. His research interests include cloud computing, parallel computing, and big data.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[4]     O. Tsukimori, “Japan's Fugaku supercomputer is tackling some of the world's biggest problems”. The Japan Times. Retrieved 26 January 2021., 7 January 2021. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/07/business/tech/japans-fugaku-supercomputer/.
[5]     X. Yang, X. Liao, W. Xu, J. Song, Q. Hu, J. Su, ... and C. Yang, "TH-1: China’s first petaflop supercomputer", Front. Comput. Sci. China, vol. 4, pp. 445–455, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-010-0383-x
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[19]   P. Thoman, K. Dichev, T. Heller, R. Iakymchuk, X. Aguilar, K. Hasanov, P. Gschwandtner, P. Lemarinier, S. Markidis, and H. Jordan, “A taxonomy of task-based parallel programming technologies for high-performance computing,” The Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 1422-1434, 2018.
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[21]   R. Sandoval-Almazan, and J. R. Gil-Garcia, “Towards an Integrative Assessment of Open Government: Proposing Conceptual Lenses and Practical Components,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, vol. 26, no. 1-2, pp. 170-192, 2016.
 
 Davood Maleki is a faculty member of ICT Research Institute (ITRC). He has a master's degree in computer software engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Currently, as a colleague and supervisor in fundamental, practical and strategic projects in Research Institute of Communication and Information Technology is working.
 Mohammad Reza Ahmadi is an associate Professor at ICT Research Institute (ITRC). He received his Doctor degree in Communication Networks from TokyoInstitute of Technology, Tokyo, in 1997. Currently he is the project manager and researcher in IT department of Research Institute of ITC. His research interests are resource optimization in data centers, virtualization technology, cloud computing, and Big data applications.
Alireza Mansouri is an assistant Professor at ICT Research Institute (ex ITRC: Iran Telecommunication Research Center). He received his BSc and MSc from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran-Iran, both in Computer Engineering- Software and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering- Information Technology from University of Tehran, Tehran-Iran. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Agent-Based Modeling, Internet of Things, Social Networks, and Computational Social Science.
 Ehsan Arianyan is an assistant Professor and director of the Information Technology Platform Group of ICT Research Institute (ITRC). He received his BSc from Iran University of Science and Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in, 2008, 2010 and 2015, respectively. He ranked 1'st among the graduate students of the Iran University of Science and Technology in the bachelor level and also among the graduate students of Amirkabir University of Technology in both master and doctoral levels. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed papers as well as 10 books. His research interests include cloud computing, parallel computing, and big data.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
International Journal of Web Research
Volume 5, Issue 2
Summer-Autumn
December 2022
Pages 9-18

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