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Foil 57 Why Study Architecture Today?

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
1 History: diverse and innovative organizational structures, often tied to novel programming models
2 Rapidly maturing under strong technological constraints
  • The "killer microprocessor" is ubiquitous
  • Laptops and supercomputers are fundamentally similar!
  • Technological trends cause diverse approaches to converge
3 Technological trends make parallel computing inevitable
  • In the mainstream
4 Need to understand fundamental principles and design tradeoffs, not just taxonomies
  • According to Culler fundamental are: Naming, Ordering, Replication, Communication performance
  • According to Fox: match computer hardware software and problem
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