- Data-intensive applications; transaction processing, information retrieval, data mining and analysis, multimedia services, computational physics/ chemistry/biology and nanotechnology.
- High performance may come from
- fast dense circuitry,
- packaging technology,
- parallelism.
- Parallel processors are computer systems consisting of multiple processing units connected via some interconnection network plus the software needed to make the processing units work together.
- Uniprocessor - Single processor supercomputers have achieved great speeds and have been pushing hardware technology to the physical limit of chip manufacturing.
- Physical and architectural bounds (Lithography,
m size, destructive quantum effects.
- Proposed solutions are maskless lithography process and nanoimprint lithography for the semiconductor).
- Uniprocessor systems can achieve to a limited computational power and not capable of delivering solutions to some problems in reasonable time.
Cem Ozdogan
2011-09-27
