In pursuit of petaflops - the Cray Cascade Project

For the last decade, the high performance computing community has explored the potential opportunities and challenges of realizing computing systems capable of operating in the trans-Petaflops performance regime. Since the inaugural multiagency 1994 Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing, the goal of establishing and exploiting such unprecedented capability for defense, scientific, industrial, and commercial applications has been investigated in the abstract.