High-Performance Computing

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April 2001

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Recent Developments

• New PC Cluster Offers Cost-Effective Supercomputing
• Parabon Puts Idle PCs to Work in a Distributed Cluster
• IBM Adds Chip Speed Using New Process and Material
• Berkeley Researchers Improve BSIM Computer Model
• Consortium Will Stretch Silicon Technology with Extreme UV Lithography
• New IBM Chip Doubles Computer Memory
• IBM ASCI White Will Become the Most Powerful Parallel System
• Competition Intensifies in High-End Corporate Computing
• Infiniband Standard Will Fuel Cluster Computing
• Intel and AMD Step Up Broadscale Competition
• Immunology Helps Improve the Security of Large Computer Networks
• Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Deploys a Massively Parallel Computer for Nuclear Testing
• Researchers Move toward Ultrasmall Electronic Chips
• Copper Interconnects Speed IBM Microprocessors
• Data Storage Explodes

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Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Background
• High-Performance Computing Today
• More Sophisticated Parallel Features in Modern Processors
• Distributed Computing Across Networks
• Microprocessor Vendors¹ Paths to Parallelism
• Clustering Computers for Parallel Power

Commercial Development Parameters

• Timing
• General Constraints
• Demand Factors
• Competing Technologies
• Synergistic Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• High-Speed Networks
• New Memory Architectures and Hybrid Memory-Logic Chip Designs
• Virtual Supercomputing Clusters
• Board-Level Stacked-Chip Interconnects
• DNA Processors: Great Potential, But A Long Way From Practical Use
• Limitations Of Behavioral Synthesis Hold Back Reconfigurable Computing
• Efficient Algorithms
• Clustering Workstations Over Networks
• Benchmark Comparisons
• Object-Oriented Systems
• Optical Computing
• Quantum Computing

Implications

• Database Searching: Good for Sales, but Controversial
• Reduced Hardware Costs
• Real-Time Computing
• Real-World Modeling

Market Development

Applications

• Computational Biology
• Computational Physics
• Computational Chemistry
• Aerospace and Automotive Design
• Business Visualization
• Computer Hardware Design and Software Development
• Image Processing
• Graphics
• Language Processing
• Robotics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Online Transaction Processing
• Virtual Environments
• Weather Forecasting

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