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Foil 43 Supercomputer Architectures in Years 2005-2010 -- II

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) Beijing and Chang Sha China -- 28 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Superconducting Technology is promising but can it compete with silicon juggernaut?
Should be able to build a simple 200 Ghz Superconducting CPU with modest superconducting caches (around 32 Kilobytes)
Must use same DRAM technology as for silicon CPU ?
So tremendous challenge to build latency tolerant algorithms (as over a factor of 100 difference in CPU and memory speed) but advantage of factor 30-100 less parallelism needed

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