Summary of Application Trends
There is a dynamic interplay between application needing more hardware and hardware allowing new/more applications
Transition to parallel computing has occurred for scientific and engineering computing but this is 1-2% of computer market
- Integration of Data/Computing
Rapid progress in commercial computing
- Database and transactions as well as financial modeling/oil reservoir simulation
- Web servers including multi-media and search growing importance
- Typically functional or pleasingly parallel
- Traditionally smaller-scale, but recently large-scale systems of growing use for Internet (world-wide) resources