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Foil 39 Comparison of Supercomputer Architectures

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

Fixing 10-20 Terabytes of Memory, we can get
16000 way parallel natural evolution of today's machines with various architectures from distributed shared memory to clustered heirarchy
  • Peak Performance is 150 Teraflops with memory systems like today but worse with more levels of cache
5000 way parallel Superconducting system with 1 Petaflop performance but terrible imbalance between CPU and memory speeds
12 million way parallel PIM system with 12 petaflop performance and "distributed memory architecture" as off chip access with have serious penalities
There are many hybrid and intermediate choices -- these are extreme examples of "pure" architectures



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