Lecture 10
Topics
- interconnects
- commercial parallel computers
- parallel computing initiatives
More information about interconnects, and evaluating their performance, can be found in the book Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster. See also Chapters 3.2 - 3.5 of The Connection Machine by Daniel Hillis.
A nice History of Supercomputing article is available in German.
When are we going to have automatic parallelization?
Right after we have automatic programming.
