| Trend I -- Hardware Assisted Tightly Coupled Shared Memory MPP's are replacing pure distributed memory systems |
| Trend II -- The World Wide Web and increasing power of individual workstations is making geographically distributed heterogeneous distributed memory systems more attractive |
| Trend III -- To confuse the issue, the technology trends in next ten years suggest yet different architecture(s) such as PIM |
| Better use Scalable Portable Software with conflicting technology/architecture trends BUT must address latency agenda which isn't clearly portable! |
