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Foil 38 Some Major Hardware Architectures - Mixed

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox

Also have heterogeneous compound architecture (metacomputer) gotten by arbitrary combination of MIMD or SIMD, Sequential or Parallel machines.

Metacomputers can vary from full collections of several hundred PC's/Settop boxes on the (future) World Wide Web to a CRAY C-90 connected to a CRAY T3D

This is a critical future architecture which is intrinsically distributed memory as multi-vendor heterogenity implies that one cannot have special hardware enhanced shared memory

note that this can be a MIMD collection of SIMD machines if have a set of Maspar's on a network
One can think of human brain as a SIMD machine and then a group of people is such a MIMD collection of SIMD processors