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Foil 8 A Brief History of Scientific Computing

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Early 1990's to Mid 1990's
  • Desktops used for distributed computing - Capabilities of CPU/Memory/Disk rapidly increasing - "loaded" workstations - ATM inter-connect - Software development environments begin to mature - Standards begin to appear - MPI, HPF, DCE...
2 Further Advances in the 1990's
  • - Performance of networks and computers will increase by 1000during the 1990's.- Competitive advantage to industries that can use either or bothHPC and Communications networks.
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