SCCS-736 Basic Issues and Current Status of Parallel Computing---1995

Geoffrey C. Fox
gcf@npac.syr.edu
http://www.npac.syr.edu

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
111 College Place
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-4100

• Technology
• Grand Challenges
• Well-Known Parallel Computers
• Data Parallelism
• Current Parallel Machines
• Clusters of Workstations---The Informal Supercomputer
• The Best Architecture?
• Software
• Data Parallel Fortran
• Message Passing Fortran
• Distributed Computing and Operating Systems
• Operating System Services
• Applications
• References