Bibliographic snapshots of high-performance/high-productivity computing

This chapter is intended to acquaint the reader with some of the important topics in high performance, or what is now being referred to as, 'high productivity computing' (HPC). The target audience is technical professionals who are not specialist in HPC. Some of the topics covered include: HPC benchmarking concerns and sample results in government research labs, private industry and academia; HPC environments in private industry vs. government labs/research sectors; emerging acceleration techniques to speed up scientific and engineering applications; the move to petaflop class hardware and software by 2010-2011; computational science programs to train future computer support staffs to exploit effectively and efficiently the emerging class of petaflop supercomputers; lists of some available HPC videos; studies by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and others to improve U.S. global competitiveness. The emphasis is to provide mostly easily accessible internet references to these topics and at a level that enables the reader to discern possible relationships between his or her own specialty and the potential impact of HPC.