Supercomputer Architecture Exploration for Zettascale Computing

In 2022, humanity entered the era of exascale computing. Supercomputers are typically compared in terms of their floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). Exascale supercomputers are capable of reaching 10¹⁸ FLOPS (one exaFLOPS). To maintain the United States\u27 leadership in high-performance computers, we must begin exploring potential system architectures for the next generation of supercomputers in the zettascale era. These new architectures will likely have to address the decreasing rate of chip-level compute improvements through the application of novel designs. The Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST) is an open-source computer system simulator that provides parallel simulation and scalable performance. These qualities make SST a leading candidate for future High-performance Computer (HPC) architecture exploration through system design benchmarking. In this project, we first explore SST\u27s code structure and development environment followed by the evaluation and comparison of various supercomputer system components with different configurations. Finally, we analyze and discuss experimental data. This project was completed with the help of KSU\u27s HPC platform