State of Parallel Computing

• Many companies thought parallel computing was easy

  They're gone now ...
  

• SGI/Cray, IBM, HP, Sun make serious parallel computers

• Seattle's Tera Computer Inc struggles to introduce a new parallel architecture, MTA

• The basic reality of large computers has changed: Servers drive the market, not speed-freaks

• The DoE's ASCI program pushes the envelope

• SMP’s are ubiquitous

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