Title :
Future general purpose supercomputer architectures
Author :
Smith, J.E. ; Hsu, W.-C. ; Hsiung, C.
Author_Institution :
Cray Res. Inc., Chippewa Fallls, WI, USA
Abstract :
The authors discuss the challenges facing designers of future general-purpose supercomputers, and describe architectural features and characteristics that may be used to meet these challenges. Balancing vector/scalar performance, vector performance, scalar processing, supporting scalability, large-scale memory systems, and high-performance I/O and networking are discussed. Performance trends and projections for general-purpose supercomputer systems are given
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; technological forecasting; 6.6 to 737.3 MFLOPS; general purpose supercomputer architectures; high-performance I/O; large-scale memory systems; networking; scalability; scalar processing; vector performance; Application software; Code standards; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Large-scale systems; Multiprocessing systems; Scalability; Software standards; Supercomputers; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '90., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2056-0
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1990.130103
