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International Conference of the Austrian Center for Parallel Computation

ACPC 1999: Parallel Computation pp 1–12Cite as

Teraflops Computing: A Challenge to Parallel Numerics?

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Following in the wake of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) of the US Department of Energy, in the forthcoming years powerful new supercomputers will be brought into the market by the manufacturers participating in the high-performance computing race. Hence, the large-scale computing facilities in the key research centers and industrial plants world-wide will surpass the teraflops performance barrier, too. The parallel architectures will be further extended to hierarchically clustered parallel computers mainly based on commoditychip processors and SMP nodes tying together possibly tens of thousands of processing elements. In addition, heterogeneous computing and metacomputing will determine future large-scale computing by interconnecting supercomputers of diverse architectures as giant supercomputer complexes. These developments will challenge not only system reliability, availability and serviceability to novel levels, but also interactivity of concurrent algorithms and, in particular, adaptivity, accuracy and stability of parallel numerical methods.

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  1. John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Central Institute for Applied Mathematics, Research Centre Jülich, Germany

    Friedel Hossfeld

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  1. Forschungsinstitut für Softwaretechnologie, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Peter Zinterhof

  2. Slovac Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Laboratory for Informatics, Dubravska 9, P.O.Box 56, 840 00, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Marian Vajteršic

  3. Universität Salzburg, RIST++, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Andreas Uhl

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Hossfeld, F. (1999). Teraflops Computing: A Challenge to Parallel Numerics?. In: Zinterhof, P., Vajteršic, M., Uhl, A. (eds) Parallel Computation. ACPC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49164-3_1

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