Important High Performance Computing Architectures

• Pipelined High Performance Workstations/PC’s

• Vector Supercomputer

• MIMD Distributed Memory machine; heterogeneous clusters; metacomputers

• SMP Symmetric Multiprocessors

• Distributed Shared Memory NUMA

• Special Purpose Machines

• SIMD

• MTA or Multithreaded architectures

• COMA or Cache Only Memories

The Past?

The Future?

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