High Performance Computing - Past, Present and Future
High Performance Computing - Past, Present and Future
The New Technology Initiative of the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK defined High Performance Computing (HPC) in the following terms:
"Computing resources which provide more than an order of magnitude more
computing power than is normally available on one's desktop."
This is a useful definition of HPC - since it reflects the reality that HPC is a moving target: what is state of the art supercomputing this year will be desktop computing in a few years' time. Before we look towards the future for HPC, it is well worthwhile for us to spend a little time surveying the incredible technological progress in computing over the past 50 years. We will then quickly review some "Grand Challenge" scientific applications, followed by a discussion of the Fortran programming language. Fortran is the paradigmatic scientific programming language and in many respects the evolution of Fortran mirrors developments in computer architecture. After a brief look at the ambitious plans of IBM and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the USA to build a true "Grand Challenge" computer by 2004, we conclude with a look at the rather different types of application which are likely to make parallel computers a real commercial success.
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Hey, A J G
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1996
Hey, A J G
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Hey, A J G
(1996)
High Performance Computing - Past, Present and Future.
Vandoni, C.E.
(ed.)
In 1996 CERN school of computing.
CERN.
.
(doi:10.5170/CERN-1996-008).
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The New Technology Initiative of the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK defined High Performance Computing (HPC) in the following terms:
"Computing resources which provide more than an order of magnitude more
computing power than is normally available on one's desktop."
This is a useful definition of HPC - since it reflects the reality that HPC is a moving target: what is state of the art supercomputing this year will be desktop computing in a few years' time. Before we look towards the future for HPC, it is well worthwhile for us to spend a little time surveying the incredible technological progress in computing over the past 50 years. We will then quickly review some "Grand Challenge" scientific applications, followed by a discussion of the Fortran programming language. Fortran is the paradigmatic scientific programming language and in many respects the evolution of Fortran mirrors developments in computer architecture. After a brief look at the ambitious plans of IBM and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the USA to build a true "Grand Challenge" computer by 2004, we conclude with a look at the rather different types of application which are likely to make parallel computers a real commercial success.
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Published date: 1996
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1996 CERN School of Computing, , Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 1996-09-08 - 1996-10-21
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Electronics & Computer Science
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A J G Hey
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C.E. Vandoni
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