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Foil 27 Overview of Computer Architecture Issues

From New CPS615 Foils-- B 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Many issues both between architectures and internal to each architecture
2 Situation confused as need to understand
  • "theoretical" arguments e.g. fat-tree v. torus
  • technology trade-offs now e.g. optical v. copper links
  • technology as a function of time
3 is a particular implementation done right
  • in basic hardware
  • as a system with software
4 All that perhaps is important is what either user or high level software (compiler/message passing system) sees.
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