Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 19 September 1997

Foil 6 Architectures for High Performance Computers - I

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Architecture is equivalent to organization or design in society analogy
  • Different models for society (Capitalism etc.) or different types of groupings in a given society
  • Businesses or Armies are more precisely controlled/organized than a crowd at the State Fair
  • We will generalize this to formal (army) and informal (crowds) organizations
2 We can distinguish formal and informal parallel computers
3 Informal parallel computers are typically "metacomputers"
  • i.e. a bunch of computers sitting on a department network
in Table To:

© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sun Feb 22 1998