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Parametric Estimation of the Ultimate Size of Hypercomputers
The performance of the emerging petaflops-scale supercomputers of the nearest
future (hypercomputers) will be governed not only by the clock frequency of the
processing nodes or by the width of the system bus, but also by such factors as
the overall power consumption and the geometric size. In this paper, we study
the influence of such parameters on one of the most important characteristics
of a general purpose computer - on the degree of multithreading that must be
present in an application to make the use of the hypercomputer justifiable. Our
major finding is that for the class of applications with purely random memory
access patterns "super-fast computing" and "high-performance computing" are
essentially synonyms for "massively-parallel computing."Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, published in Proc. 6th World Multiconference on
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 200