DocumentCode
759396
Title
Supercomputers-revolution or evolution?
Author
Cybenko, George ; Kuck, David J
Author_Institution
Thayer Sch. of Eng., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH, USA
Volume
29
Issue
9
fYear
1992
Firstpage
39
Lastpage
41
Abstract
The advantages of a holistic approach to massive parallelism that fully incorporates software requirements are discussed. This idea is considered in the context of a revolutionary approach to achieving practical thousandfold parallelism by the year 2000 that calls for immediately building machines with thousands of processors, using whatever architectural ideas are currently deemed feasible from the system packaging viewpoint. This is contrasted with evolutionary approach, which is to methodically double the number of processors each year, while nurturing and enlarging the software base correspondingly.<>
Keywords
parallel machines; performance evaluation; 0.1 to 35 GFLOPS; massive parallelism; software requirements; system packaging; Clocks; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Manufacturing industries; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; System software;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/6.155707
Filename
155707
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