TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing technologies of HPC
AU - Dongarra, J. J.
AU - Meuer, H. W.
AU - Simon, H. D.
AU - Strohmaier, E.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In 1993 for the first time a list of the top 500 supercomputer sites world-wide was made available. The Top500 list allows a much more detailed and well-founded analysis of the state of high performance computing. Previously data such as the number and geographical distribution of supercomputer installations were difficult to obtain, and only a few analysts undertook the effort to track the press releases by dozens of vendors. With the Top500 report now generally and easily available it is possible to present an analysis of the state of High Performance Computing (HPC). This paper summarizes some of the most important observations about HPC as of late 1996, in particular the continued dominance of the world market in HPC by the US, the market penetration by commodity microprocessor based systems, and the growing industrial use of super-computers.
AB - In 1993 for the first time a list of the top 500 supercomputer sites world-wide was made available. The Top500 list allows a much more detailed and well-founded analysis of the state of high performance computing. Previously data such as the number and geographical distribution of supercomputer installations were difficult to obtain, and only a few analysts undertook the effort to track the press releases by dozens of vendors. With the Top500 report now generally and easily available it is possible to present an analysis of the state of High Performance Computing (HPC). This paper summarizes some of the most important observations about HPC as of late 1996, in particular the continued dominance of the world market in HPC by the US, the market penetration by commodity microprocessor based systems, and the growing industrial use of super-computers.
KW - HPC technology
KW - High performance computing
KW - Supercomputer market
KW - Supercomputer technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031117560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/s0167-739x(96)00031-3
DO - 10.1016/s0167-739x(96)00031-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031117560
SN - 0167-739X
VL - 12
SP - 461
EP - 474
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
IS - 5
ER -