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Foil 11 Some General Issues Addressed by High Performance Architectures

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Pragmatic issues connected with cost of designing and building new systems -- use commodity hardware and software if possible
  • Supports use of PC clusters, metacomputing
Data locality and bandwidth to memory -- caches, vector registers -- sequential and parallel
Programming model -- shared address or data parallel -- explicit or implicit
Forms of parallelism -- data, control, functional; macroscopic, microscopic, instruction level

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