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Foil 79 Architectures for High Performance Computers - I

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
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
We can distinguish formal and informal parallel computers
Informal parallel computers are typically "metacomputers"
  • i.e. a bunch of computers sitting on a department network

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