Parallel Panorama

Table of Contents

Parallel Panorama

Amdahl’s Law

Early High Performance Machines

Early Parallel Machines

SIMD Is Simply Too Rigid

VLSI Revolution Aided Parallel Computing

Denelcor HEP

Effects of VLSI on Early MIMD Machines

PRAM Machine Model

Research Parallel Machines

Ultra Computer and RP-3

Combining Switch

Early Programming Approaches

Memory and MIMD Computers

Nonshared Memory Avoids Problem

Shared vs Nonshared Memory

Another Round of Architecture

iWARP

J-Machine

KSR

DASH

Recent Commercial Machines

Programming Approaches

Next Strategy to Save Legacy Codes ...

Message Passing

State of Parallel Computing

Budget Parallelism

Applications

Government Programs

HPCC

Grand Challenge Problems

HPCC Legacy

Email: snyder@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/596/CurrentQtr/

Other information:
CSE 596: Parallel Computation

Download presentation source