The Need for Supercomputing - (Cont.)
The Need for Supercomputing - (Cont.)
Why use parallel computing techniques ?
- Limitations on traditional Supercomputer
- Speed of light - Silicon technology - Production costs
- Rapid increase in the performance of commodity processors.
- Intel CISC X86 architecture chip has increased in performance by a factor of 450 between 1978 and 1994. - RISC growth even faster, Sun/HP/IBM/MIPS expect theperformance of their processors to double every 18 months.