HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS — A STATUS REPORT
Some years ago the supercomputer landscape changed dramatically: the supremacy of vector processor-based systems had to give way to machines built from Commodity Of-The-Shelf (COTS) products that promised to deliver a better price-performance ratio. In addition cheap Beowulf clusters emerged and are massively employed in laboratories all over the world. We discuss some reasons for this change and also address questions like: Is there still room for computer architec-ture research? Is there still value in large systems as built in the ASCI initiative in the USA as opposed to clusters? We will review the present status of the supercomputer field and comment on the (rather limited) architectural range that is offered today. Furthermore, we will discuss some of the latest developments in the field and how they may impact on the machines to come.
Aad J. van der STEEN
High Performance Computing Group, Utrecht University,P.O. Box 80195, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
国际会议
The Joint Conference of ICCP6 and CCP2003(第6届国际计算伦理会议)
北京
英文
63-83
2004-05-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）