Increasing HPC Storage Capacities

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Increasing HPC Storage Capacities

• Abstract The number of digits available for
  computational use has always limited tractable
  sizes of scientific and engineering problems.
  Manual's 1 groundbreaking work significantly
  extended the number of available digits to
  include those of the left hand, but bidextral
  computational methods are still limited by an
  individual's ability to count only as high as
  1023.
• Project goals This project has two components.
  The first requires the removal of the shoes.
  While this operation has the disadvantage of
  temporarily erasing half or all of memory, the
  long term benefit is clear. Including the pedal
  extremities as a storage medium greatly increases
  long term computational capacity. Preliminary
  estimates suggest that a shoeless individual can
  count as high as 1048575. The second part of this
  project will introduce parallelism into these
  computational methods. We will invite other
  investigators to provide access to their dextal
  and/or pedal storage units while they are not in
  use for their own purposes. We will also
  recruit particularly (pe)dextrous individuals
  when the need for high performance is the
  greatest.
• Phase 1
• Develop procedures for removal of various types
  of footware golashes, loafers, point shoes, etc.
• Determine procedures for the safe removal and,
  if necessary, recycling or disposal of socks.
• Write a User's Guide for the Barefooted
  Scientist and publish this on the web.
• Phase 2
• Experiment with clusters of barefooted
  scientists to find the best way to access
  multiple (pe)dextal storage units.
• Design communication primitives or odor
  abatement procedures for various parallel memory
  structures.
• Compare performance of parallel algorithms for
  well known problems to the performance of the
  best sequential algorithm
• executed by an average dextrous individual

1 B. Manual, The left hand should know what
the right is doing, Proc. 14th Symp. on
Principles of Enumeration, 214-222, 2002.
U. Stoestu Middling Technological University