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High Performance Computing - Past, Present and Future

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.
217-228
CERN
Hey, A J G
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Vandoni, C.E.
Hey, A J G
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Vandoni, C.E.

Hey, A J G (1996) High Performance Computing - Past, Present and Future. Vandoni, C.E. (ed.) In 1996 CERN school of computing. CERN. pp. 217-228 . (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
Venue - Dates: 1996 CERN School of Computing, , Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 1996-09-08 - 1996-10-21
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 251825
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/251825
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Date deposited: 09 Nov 1999
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 22:44

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Author: A J G Hey
Editor: C.E. Vandoni

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