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Paperback Getting Up to Speed: The Future of Supercomputing Book

ISBN: 0309095026

ISBN13: 9780309095020

Supercomputers play a significant and growing role in a variety of areas important to the nation. They are used to address challenging science and technology problems. In recent years, however,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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In the US. the NRC is probably the best qualified to assess where supercomputing is going. The book offers a vendor neutral survey. One that is also largely country neutral. The latest status of various hardware efforts is described. For vector computing, massive clustering, and other approaches. The latter also includes the ongoing competition between building a supercomputer out of common off the shelf components (COTS), or via designing dedicated hardware. You might wonder at the continued viability of the latter, as design limits keep getting pushed back. Surely a point of diminishing returns will be reached?
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