Super Computing 2000

Stephen Adler of Brookhaven Laboratory has written a fine account of the Super Computing 2000 conference in Dallas, Texas. He covers super computing, venture capital, some fascinating info about SETI, open source software, and even has some geek porn.

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Re:Isn't supercomputing dead yet?

[SilverSun]

Half of it is dead.
Supercomputer applications can be ordered by the inherent parallelism of the underlying problem. Some problems are inherent parallel (e.g. SETI, HEP, etc.) some require communication (Weather, NP, etc.). Wherever communication is needed old fasioned "supercomputers" e.g. shared mem SIMD, MIMD, ccNUMA etc. mashines will be superior to clusters, i.e. distributed mem MIMD mashines.