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Foil 69 Some Hardware and Software Trends 0ver the next 5 Years

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 -- Now Cray, Convex (HP), Digital, IBM have massively parallel computing systems and Silicon
2 Graphics is becoming a powerful force high performance computing vendors
  • - Several architectures but only one: Distributed memory MIMDmulticomputer is known to scale from one to very many processors.
3 Software is challenge and could prevent/delay hardware trend that suggests parallelism will be a mainline computer architecture
  • - We must get systems software correct- Simultaneously develop applications software in gradually improvingparallel programming environment
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