High-Performance Computing
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Technology Map Detailed Contents April 2001
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
Updates
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