Some More Detailed Trends in HPCC
Use of Commodity hardware: PC’s offer best performance per dollar (Gigaflop for $30,000)
Use of Commodity software: Windows NT, COM, CORBA, web, Java, VRML ….
Use of Web to produce Seamless (universal) computer interfaces
Java replacing C++ and Fortran for Numerical Computation
Use of databases and collaboration technology to link people, databases and simulation
Integration of parallel and distributed computing
Use of distributed objects (CORBA) to encapsulated remote services