Title :
Establishing an MPP guidepost
Author_Institution :
Cray Research Inc., Chippewa Falls, WI, USA
Abstract :
It is noted that no system has appeared which has been recognized by the high-performance computing community as the guidepost for massively parallel processing (MPP). The author describes what is necessary for a system to become such a guidepost. A comparison is made to the CRAY-1, a system which serves as a guidepost for vector computing and serves as a standard by which all types of high-performance computing systems are measured. It is claimed that establishing an MPP guidepost requires building a system that delivers on the promised potential of scalable parallel computing, by providing high sustained performance on a wide variety of production application, with very little programming effort
Keywords :
parallel processing; performance evaluation; CRAY-1; high sustained performance; high-performance computing community; massively parallel processing; scalable parallel computing; standard; vector computing; Computer architecture; High performance computing; Microprocessors; Parallel processing; Production; Programming profession; Vector processors;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1992., Fourth Symposium on the
Conference_Location :
McLean, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2772-7
DOI :
10.1109/FMPC.1992.234878
