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Supercomputing with Novel Architectures

In: Supercomputational Science

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  • R. G. Evans

    (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

  • S. Wilson

    (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

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The increase in speed of electronic computing machines in the period 1950–90 was attributable to improvements in electronic engineering and to the use of parallel computation. Until the early seventies the parallel computation was to a large extent transparent to the computer user. Since that time, however, this has ceased to be the case and the user has found it necessary to familiarize himself with some of the details of the machine architecture in order to exploit the capabilities of the particular target machine effectively. “Conventional” architectures are typified by the CRAY range of machines, which have a small number of very powerful vector processors sharing a common memory. On the other hand, “novel” architectures usually have a large number of less powerful processors together with a distributed memory.

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  • R. G. Evans & S. Wilson, 1990. "Supercomputing with Novel Architectures," Springer Books, in: R. G. Evans & S. Wilson (ed.), Supercomputational Science, pages 13-23, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4684-5820-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5820-6_3
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