High-Performance Computing

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	2001
Dec/Jan -		2001: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2002
November -		Autonomic Computing
October -		Materials and Performance in Integrated Circuits Recent Developments: IBM Spin-Off's New, Difficult Approach, toward Slim Servers
September -		Growth of Computing "Grids"
August -		Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Recent Developments: New Standard for Scientific Visualizations • First Room-Temperature Single-Electron Transistor
July -		Distributed Computing • Computing Clusters and Programmable Hardware
June -		Recent Developments: Nanotube Research moves Closer to Molecule-Level Circuits • Compaq Will Compete in "Slim" Servers • IBM Project Seeks to Reduce Human Intervention in Large Computers and Servers
May -		Return of Asynchronous Logic?
April -		Transmeta Microprocessors in Servers Optimized for Energy Conservation Recent Developments: Sony, Toshiba, and IBM to Develop Leading-Edge Microprocessor Family for Broadband
March -		Advanced Computer Systems Constrained by Heat Dissipation Recent Developments: HyperTransport High-Speed Communications Bus
February -		Linux in High-End Computing Recent Developments: Chipmakers on Fast Track to 10 GHz Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

	2000
Dec/Jan -		2000: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2001
November -		Leading-Edge Examples of Microprocessor Designs Recent Developments: InfiniBand Standard to Enable Cluster Computing Further
October -		Increased Competition for High-End Corporate Computing Recent Developments: Terascale Computer for February 2001
September -		Peer-to-Peer Networks and Intel Recent Developments: IBM ASCI White to Become Most Powerful Parallel System
August -		Microphotonics and High-Performance Computing Recent Developments: New IBM Chip
July -		Cost-Effective Personal Computer Cluster: KLAT2 • Putting Idle Personal Computers to Work Commercially in a Distributed Cluster
*Prior to July 2000, this technology area was known as "Parallel Computing".*
June -		Research Consortium to Stretch Silicon Technology with Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Recent Developments: New Technology to Build Faster Chips
May -		Multiple Approaches to Smaller, Faster Chips Recent Developments: Smasung's 1.6-GHz Alpha Microprocessor
April -		IBM Adds Chip Speed Using New Process and Material Recent Developments: Berkeley Researchers Provide Improved Computer Model • Operating Systems' Competition Gets More Involved: IBM to Offer Monterey against Microsoft • Sun Microsystems
March -		Broad-Scale Competition between Leading Microprocessor Vendors Intel and AMD Recent Developments: Copper Interconnects • Explosive Data Storage
February -		Biological Models Support High-Performance Computing

	1999
Dec/Jan -		1999: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2000
November -		Recent Developments: Sun Aims at SGI Customers with New Workstation • Coppermine Microprocessor Key for Intel Marketing • Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Unveils Massively Parallel Computer for Nuclear Testing • New Technique May Lead to Ultrasmall Electronic Chips
October -		Microprocessor Forum: Vendors Take Different Paths to Parallelism
September -		Recent Developments: AMD Takes Commercial Microprocessor Speed Record from Intel • IBM Targets Linux with Free Motherboard Design • IBM Plans 500-MHz Bus for Power4 Processor • Stacked-Chip Interconnect Makes Board-Level Debut
August -		Explorer Technology Charts
*Before August 1999, the Explorer service was called TechMonitoring, and Viewpoints* were TechLinks.**
July -		Sun Microsystems and IBM Take Different Approaches to Larger Clusters Recent Developments: Rambus Computer Memory Receives Lukewarm Acceptance
June -		Will PixelFusion Revolutionize High-end Graphics? Recent Developments: IBM Leads in Hard-Disk Drives • IBM Previews New Clustering Technology Extending Microsoft's Services
May -		Cplant: Sandia National Laboratory's Innovative Computer Cluster
April -		Using Idle Personal Computing Cycles for Virtual Supercomputing Recent Developments: Powerful Next-Generation Sony PlayStation
March -		Hybrid Memory-Logic Chip Designs
February -		Recent Developments: Sun Microsystems and the Telecommunications Market • Trends in Microprocessors and Parallelism • Competition in Server Communication Protocols Applications: New Computer Technology to Improve Weather Forecasts Dramatically

	1998
Dec/Jan -		1998: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1999
November -		IBM Pursues Technological Lead in Microprocessor Chips Recent Developments: ART Develops Highly Parallel Chip for Rendering High-Definition Graphics • Intel Invests in Micron and Rambus Technology
October -		Harness: Improved Clustered Computing Software to Follow on PVM Recent Developments: New VIA-Based Eight-Way Parallel Servers
September -		NASA, Beowulf, and Homemade Supercomputing
August -		Parallel Processing Using Linux: An Open, Free Operating System
July -		Intel's Xeon Enables Greater Parallelism among General-Purpose Microprocessors Recent Developments: Early Results for Tera's MTA against CRAY T90 Are Promising
June -		New, Parallel PowerPC Chip Design by Motorola
May -		Reconfigurable Computing Synergies with Object Technology
April -		Competing in Parallel Computers Recent Developments: Major Chip Breakthrough in Chip Miniaturization
March -		U.S. Department of Energy Initiative Aims for 30 Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second by 2001 Recent Developments: IBM Shows Off Experimental 1000-MHz Microprocessor Chip
February -		Computer Clusters: A Growing Development in Parallel Computing

	1997
Dec/Jan -		1997: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1998
November -		OpenMP Industry Standard to Promote Shared-Memory Programming Model • Parallel Computers to Model Biological Processes Recent Developments: Hewlett-Packard to Release Eight-Processor Server
October -		Copper Connections in Chips Could Mean Faster, Cheaper Computers • Eight-Processor Server Market Appears Mixed
September -		Parallel Supercomputers
August -		Trends in Cluster Computing and Message Passing Languages
July -		Reconfigurable Computing
June -		Parallel Computing and Human-Computer Chess Competition
May -		Alternatives to Silicon-Based Computing • Stanford Partners in New U.S. Government Effort to Revolutionize High-Performance Computing
April -		New Chips Include Parallel Processing for Improved Multimedia Capabilities • Parallel Computing Is the Focus of NEC Alliance • Growing Internet Instability Worries Computer Scientists
March -		Advanced Logic Research and Unisys Develop Low-Cost Six-way Parallel Server • Sun Announces High-end 64-way Parallel Server • Optical Interconnects Are Available for Parallel Computing
February -		Parallelism within Mainstream Microprocessors for Multimedia: Intel's MMX Technology and Its Competitors

	1996
Dec/Jan -		1996: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1997
November -		Cray Research-Silicon Graphics Wins Department of Energy Award • Marubeni Electronics Sells Multiprocessor Workstations for Supercomputer Applications • IBM Spearheads Unix Clustering Collaboration • Oracle and SCO Demo Large-Scale Database on Mixed Vendor Cluster • IBM Will Ship Next-Generation CMOS Mainframes • Silicon Graphics Introduces Parallel MIPS Microprocessor Architecture with Digital Signal Processing Capabilities • High-Performance Desktop Computer-Aided Design Is for Bioengineering
October -		Multiprocessing: A Growing Trend for Single-User Calculation-Intensive Applications
September -		Parallelizing Code Practice Is Beginning to Apply Old Theories • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Contracts IBM to Build World's Fastest Supercomputer • Industry Leaders Indicate Support for Eight-Processor Multiprocessing Technology • Computer-Human Chess Challenge Rematch Will Take Place In New York Next Spring
August -		Sequent Will Purchase Chen Systems • Hitachi Launches Three New Unix Server Models • Japan's Science and Technology Agency Announces Development of a Multiteraflop Earth Simulation Computer • Intel Ships 20-Gflop Installment of Teraflop Computer to Sandia National Laboratories • NEC Develops Optical Transmission Component For Parallel Computers
July -		Clustering Technology: Intel to Add Support for Nonuniform Memory-Access Technology • IBM to Add Vinca Clustering to Servers • Symmetric Multiprocessing Capabilities • Mainframes: Easier to Combine into Clusters
June -		Inktomi Corporation Formed by Berkeley Scientists to Index Entire World Wide Web Contents Using Parallel Processing • Berkeley's NOW Project • DNA Processors: A Long Way from Practical Use
May -		Intel Shifts to Fastest Massively Parallel Processing System • Sales of Multiprocessor Superservers Leaped in 1995 • Hewlett-Packard Tries to Jump-Start Exemplar Product Line from Convex • Fujitsu Ltd. Launches Vector and Parallel Supercomputers • Sun Microsystems's Servers Will Scale to 30 Processors • Tricord Systems Announces 166-MHz Server • Operating Systems Exist for Symmetric Multiprocessing
April -		Chess Competition Showcases Differences between Human Intelligence and Parallel Computer System Processing • Thinking Machines Emerges from Bankruptcy Protection, Joint Ventures with Sun Microsystems • Silicon Graphics Buys Cray Research Inc. • Pyramid and Siemens Nixdorf Unveil Next Generation in Clustering/the Reliant RM1000 Cluster Server • Industrial Applications Embrace New Departmental Supercomputers
March -		Personal Computer Vendors Compete against Workstation and Supercomputer Vendors • Limitations of Behavioral Synthesis Hold Back Reconfigurable Computing • UCLA Researchers Pursue SESAME: System Software Measurement and Evaluation
February -		Stanford Researchers Develop More Flexible Architecture for Parallel Processor Cluster • Fujitsu Limited Supplies Hybrid Vector-parallel Supercomputer to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts • Growth Continues on Windows NT-Based Parallel Systems
Dec/Jan -		1995: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1996