DocumentCode
3296780
Title
Establishing an MPP guidepost
Author
Nelson, Steve
Author_Institution
Cray Research Inc., Chippewa Falls, WI, USA
fYear
1992
fDate
19-21 Oct 1992
Firstpage
471
Lastpage
473
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1992., Fourth Symposium on the
Conference_Location
McLean, VA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-2772-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FMPC.1992.234878
Filename
234878
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