Establishing an MPP guidepost

Abstract

It is noted that no system has appeared which has been recognized by the high-performance computing community as the guidepost for massively parallel processing (MPP). The author describes what is necessary for a system to become such a guidepost. A comparison is made to the CRAY-1, a system which serves as a guidepost for vector computing and serves as a standard by which all types of high-performance computing systems are measured. It is claimed that establishing an MPP guidepost requires building a system that delivers on the promised potential of scalable parallel computing, by providing high sustained performance on a wide variety of production application, with very little programming effort.<>