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Why Parallel Computers?
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Desire to solve bigger, more realistic applications problems.
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Fundamental limits are being approached.
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More cost effective solution
Example: Weather Prediction (Navier-Stokes)
with 3D Grid around the Earth
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- 1 Kilometer Cells
- 10 slices
cells
- each cell is 8 bytes,
Bytes = 200 GBytes
- at each cell will perform 100 ops/cell
- 1 minute time step
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Updated Tue Jan 31 02:36:16 EST 1995