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Foil 11 Parallel Computing Trends to Year 2000

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Hardware trends imply that all computers (PC's ---> Supercomputers) will be parallel by the year 2000
  • Upto now parallel computers are from small start-up companies (except Intel Supercomputer Division)
  • Recently Cray, Convex (HP), Digital, IBM have announced massively parallel computing initiatives
  • Several architectures but only one : Distributed memory MIMD multicomputer is known to scale from one to very many processors
Software is challenge and could prevent/delay hardware trend that suggests parallelism will be a mainline computer architecture
  • first we must get systems software correct
  • then applications software

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