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Foil 17 What Is HPCC?

From NPAC Centric view of Federal HPCC Program Trip to China(Beijing,Harbin) by Don Leskiw -- June23-July 5,1995. by Don Leskiw * See also color IMAGE
What Is "High Performance"
  • Speed and Memory - Primary and Secondary
  • Multi- Purpose: Grand and National Challenges
  • Parallelism (and/or Distributed - NEW!)
All Computing Is Constantly Improving
  • High Performance Chips
    • Cycles per second
    • Instruction Sets, Pipelining, Superscalar (Multiple Instruction Issue)
  • Memory Hierarchies

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