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Foil 12 Why Parallel Computing?

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)
1 Continuing demands for higher performance
2 Physical limits on single processor performance
3 Increasing number of transistors in a single chip or on a single board implies parallel architectures
4 High costs of internal concurrency
5 Result is rise of multiprocessor architectures
  • And number of processors will continue to increase
6 Increasing importance of DISTRIBUTED computing through the Web and Internet
  • or Intranets which is the Internet internal to organizations
  • Distributed computing is a much larger field
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