Teradactyl: an Easy-to-Use Supercomputer

Since Ada Lovelace, using supercomputers has been much harder than building them. Compilers can only occasionally automatically parallelize interesting programs. Researchers spend years developing efficient code. We propose to turn the supercomputing norm on its head: we won't use software to adapt to hardware idiosyncrasies, instead we'll make software easy with sophisticated hands-off supercomputers. We want to let scientists concentrate on science, instead of scheduling loop iterations on parallel hardware. In this paper we propose an alternative: using our Teradactyl supercomputer architecture, based on our successful Levo processor (see http://www.jilp.org , Volume 5, August). We describe and analyze Teradactyl within.