Performance Requirements
Climate model
- 1016 ops for 10 yr. simulation (10 days @ 10GF)
- Easily generate 100 GB data
- Want x 104: more resolution, duration, detail
3-D real-time video
- Data sets approach 10243 volume elements
- 10243 x 30 fps x 300 ops/elmt = 1013 ops/sec
- I/O requirements are correspondingly high