
Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jack Dongarra
Software Engineering Daily
Data Movement and Benchmarking in Computing
This chapter explores the challenges of data movement in modern computing, highlighting how inefficiencies in data transfer impede performance despite advances in processing power. The speakers discuss the limitations of traditional benchmarks like LINPACK, advocating for more relevant measurements that reflect current computational tasks and architectures. Emphasizing the evolution of benchmarks to include newer standards such as HPCG, they stress the importance of developing diverse metrics to accurately assess and improve supercomputer performance in real-world applications.
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