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HPCC Current Status: Hardware MPP

We describe basic technology driver -- the CMOS Juggernaut -- and some new approaches that could be important 10-20 years from now

We describe from elementary point of view the basics of parallel(MPP) architectures

We discuss current situation for tightly coupled systems -- convergence to distributed shared memory

We discuss clusters of PC's/workstations -- MetaComputing

GeneralResearchB96 General Collection of Research Foils -- 
                    July--December 1996
CPS615-95A         Master Set A of Overview Material on Parallel 
                    Computing for CPS615 Foils
CPS615-95B         Master Set B of Overview Material on Parallel 
                    Computing for CPS615 Foils
NPACScreenDumps96  Collection of GIF Images for General NPAC Projects 
                    April96-
metaCRPC-ANL96     MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer

Table of Contents for HPCC Current Status: Hardware MPP

 GeneralResearchB96 005 001 Status of "Classic" HPCC -- 
                            June1996
                            Summary of MPP Hardware
 GeneralResearchB96 006 002 Abstract of HPCC Hardware Status 1996
 GeneralResearchB96 025 003 Some HPCC Hardware Architectures and Their
                             Status - I

• What does device physics and semiconductor industry say?
• Note CMOS will dominate for next 10-20 years
• Maybe superconducting technology will be interesting at end of this era

         CPS615-95A 003 004 The Technology 
                            Driving Forces for HPCC
         CPS615-95A 004 005 Effect of Feature Size on Performance
         CPS615-95A 005 006 Growing Logic Chip Density
         CPS615-95A 006 007 Trends in Feature and Die Size as a 
                            Function of Time
         CPS615-95A 007 008 Supercomputer Memory Sizes and trends in 
                            RAM Density
         CPS615-95A 008 009 Comparison of Trends in RAM Density and 
                            CPU Performance Increases
         CPS615-95A 009 010 National Roadmap for Semiconductor 
                            Technology --1992
         CPS615-95A 010 011 CMOS Technology and Parallel Processor 
                            Chip Projections

         CPS615-95B 006 012 Parallel Computer Architecture Issues
         CPS615-95B 008 013 Granularity of Parallel Components
         CPS615-95B 009 014 Types of Parallel Memory Architectures
                            -- Logical Structure
         CPS615-95B 010 015 Types of Parallel Memory Architectures -- 
                            Physical Characteristics
         CPS615-95B 011 016 Diagrams of Shared and Distributed 
                            Memories
         CPS615-95B 012 017 Classes of Communication Network include 
                            ...
         CPS615-95B 017 018 Examples of Interconnection Topologies
         CPS615-95B 021 019 Latency and Bandwidth of a Network
         CPS615-95B 022 020 Transfer Time in Microseconds for both 
                            Shared Memory Operations and Explicit 
                            Message Passing
         CPS615-95B 023 021 Latency/Bandwidth Space for 0-byte 
                            message(Latency) and 1 MB 
                            message(bandwidth).
 GeneralResearchB96 026 022 Some HPCC Hardware Architectures and Their
                             Status - II
         CPS615-95B 038 023 Shared versus Distributed Memory

• In particular Gordon Bell's SNAP architecture
  

 GeneralResearchB96 027 024 Gordon Bell's SNAP Architecture - I
 GeneralResearchB96 028 025 Gordon Bell's SNAP Architecture - II
 GeneralResearchB96 029 026 Gordon Bell's SNAP Architecture - III
  NPACScreenDumps96 068 027 Mark Baker's Review of 
                            MetaComputing/Cluster Management Projects

     metaCRPC-ANL96 005 028 Alternative Supercomputing Resources
     metaCRPC-ANL96 006 029 Parallel/Distributed Computing - 
                            Communications Characteristics
     metaCRPC-ANL96 007 030 Some Comments about Parallel and 
                            Distributed Computing
     metaCRPC-ANL96 008 031 Communications Performance of Some 
                            Parallel and Distributed Systems
     metaCRPC-ANL96 009 032 Distributed Systems: Some Problems

List of Foils Used as they occur

GeneralResearchB96 General Collection of Research Foils -- 
                    July--December 1996

CPS615-95A         Master Set A of Overview Material on Parallel 
                    Computing for CPS615 Foils

CPS615-95B         Master Set B of Overview Material on Parallel 
                    Computing for CPS615 Foils

NPACScreenDumps96  Collection of GIF Images for General NPAC Projects 
                    April96-

metaCRPC-ANL96     MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer

GeneralResearchB96 General Collection of Research Foils -- 
                    July--December 1996

CPS615-95A         Master Set A of Overview Material on Parallel 
                    Computing for CPS615 Foils

CPS615-95B         Master Set B of Overview Material on Parallel 
                    Computing for CPS615 Foils

NPACScreenDumps96  Collection of GIF Images for General NPAC Projects 
                    April96-

metaCRPC-ANL96     MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer

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