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Foil 12 When will Parallel Computing Take Over ?

From HPCS95 Keynote Presentation: HPC at the Crossroads Academic Niche or Economic Development Cornucopia HPCS95 Symposium -- July 10-12 Montreal Canada. by Geoffrey C. Fox * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Switch from conventional to new types of technology is a phase transition
Needs headroom (Carver Mead) which is large (factor of 10 ?) due to large new software investment
Machines such as the nCUBE-1 and CM-2 were comparable in cost performance to conventional supercomputers
  • Enough to show that "Parallel Computing Works"
  • Not enough to take over!
Cray T3D, Intel Paragon, CM-5, DECmpp (Maspar MP-2), IBM SP-2, nCUBE-3 have enough headroom to take over from traditional computers ?
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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