The Innovative Computing Laboratory now has 18 years under its wings and has seen many changes here at UTK and ORNL. The past year (2007) has been particularly exciting for high performance computing with the NSF Track 2 award coming to UT/JICS and the DOE Leadership class system at ORNL becoming the largest open DOE computing facility. In addition, ICL has transitioned to the College of Engineering and is experiencing the merger of the Computer Science Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department into the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. With these changes our long term goal of leadership in enabling technologies for high performance computing is still of great interest and importance.
ICL is prepared to address some of the most important computational scientific issues of our time. Our plans for the future are founded on our accomplishments as well as our vision. That vision challenges us to be a world leader in enabling technologies and software for scientific computing. We have been and will continue to be providers of high performance tools to tackle science’s most challenging problems and to play a major role in the development of standards for scientific computing in general.
Looking at the current state and the future of ICL, we continue to collaborate with leading researchers around the country and world to address the challenges of high performance computing in the manycore and petascale era. This is truly a time of great excitement in the design of software and algorithms for the next generation, and we will be part of the continuing evolution of the high performance computing ecology.
During these stimulating times, I am grateful to our sponsors for their continued endorsement of our efforts. My special thanks and congratulations go to the ICL staff and students for their skill, dedication, and tireless efforts in making ICL one of the best centers for enabling technology in the world.
- Jack Dongarra, Director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory
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