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Foil 38 The Need for Supercomputing - (Cont.)

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
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.

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