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Foil 41 Some Hardware/Software Trends over next 5 years

From Initial CPS615 Course and Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
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1 ATM networks have rapidly transitioned from research Gigabit networks to commercial deployment
  • ATM likely to be a major force in local area as well as wide area networks
2 Computer Hardware trends imply that all computers (PC's ---> Supercomputers) will be parallel by the year 2000
  • Up to 1993, parallel computers are from small start-up companies (except Intel Supercomputer Division)
  • Now Cray, Convex (HP), Digital, IBM have massively parallel computing systems and Silicon Graphics is becoming a powerful high performance computing vendor
  • Several architectures but only one : Distributed memory MIMD multicomputer is known to scale from one to very many processors
3 Software is challenge and could prevent/delay hardware trend that suggests parallelism will be a mainline computer architecture
  • We must get systems software correct
  • Simultaneously develop applications software in gradually improving parallel programming environment
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