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Foil 7 When will Parallel Computing Take Over ?

From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Switch from conventional to new types of technology is a phase transition
2 Needs headroom (Carver Mead) which is large (factor of 10 ?) due to large new software investment
3 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!
4 Cray T3D, Intel Paragon, CM-5, DECmpp (Maspar MP-2), IBM SP-2, nCUBE-3 have enough headroom to take over from traditional computers ?
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