Trends in high-performance computing: A historical overview and examination of future developments

Jack Dongarra

doi:10.1109/MCD.2006.1598076

Trends in high-performance computing: A historical overview and examination of future developments

Jack Dongarra

Computer Science and Mathematics Div

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Abstract

Within the first half of this decade, clusters of PCs and workstations have become the prevalent architecture for many high performance computing (HPC) application areas in all ranges of performance. However, the Earth Simulator vector system demonstrated that many scientific applications could benefit greatly from other computer architectures. At the same time, there is renewed broad interest in the scientific HPC community for new hardware architectures and new programming paradigms. This paper discusses major recent trends and changes in the HPC marketplace. Topics discussed include state of systems today, programming models, future trends on grid computing, and the transforming effect on science and engineering.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-27
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCD.2006.1598076
State	Published - Jan 2006

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This research was supported in part by the applied mathematical sciences research program of the Office of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC.

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U.S. Department of Energy	DE-AC05-00OR22725

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