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ATM networks have rapidly transitioned from research Gigabit networks to commercial deployment
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See NPAC's work on NYNET
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ATM likely to be a major force in local area as well as wide area networks
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Computer Hardware trends imply that all computers (PC's ---> Supercomputers) will be parallel by the year 2000
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Up to 1993, parallel computers are from small start-up companies (except Intel Supercomputer Division)
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Now Cray, Convex (HP), Digital, IBM have massively parallel computing systems and Silicon Graphics is becoming a powerful high performance computing vendor
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Several architectures but only one : Distributed memory MIMD multicomputer is known to scale from one to very many processors
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Software is challenge and could prevent/delay hardware trend that suggests parallelism will be a mainline computer architecture
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We must get systems software correct
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Simultaneously develop applications software in gradually improving parallel programming environment
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