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Foil 4 Supercomputer Architectures in Years 2005-2010 -- II

From And the HPCN Future is: Petaflop Computers and Java and Web Technologies Aachen Parallel Computing Workshop, Pallas Presentation Germany -- April 21,23 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

1 Superconducting Technology is promising but can it compete with silicon juggernaut?
2 Should be able to build a simple 200 Ghz Superconducting CPU with modest superconducting caches (around 32 Kilobytes)
3 Must use same DRAM technology as for silicon CPU ?
4 So tremendous challenge to build latency tolerant algorithms (as over a factor of 100 difference in CPU and memory speed) but advantage of factor 30-100 less parallelism needed

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