Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 21 October 1995

Foil 73 Road Map to Paul Messina's Chapter 2 of Parallel Computing Works -- IV

From New CPS615 Foils-- B 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
15) Intel Delta (528 nodes) MIMD but not Hypercube (mesh) t
  • commercial epsilon (Paragon)
16) BBN* TC2000 (Butterfly) Series of elegant but slow shared memory
17) Cray C-90 Very successful "conventional" supercomputer
18) CM-5 New MIMD Distributed Memory
    • signaled "death" of SIMD as major player and first of set of
    • "serious" commercial machines
    • Paragon
    • Fujitsu ( $80M system is world's most powerful, Jan. '94 )
    • Meiko CS-2
    • Cray T3D
    • IBM SP-1,2
    • Convex Exemplar shared memory hierarchical
19) DASH Virtual Shared Memory
    • Alewife
    • KSR
    • Tera true UMA -- Uniform Memory Access

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