The Purdue Workshop on Grand Challenges in Computer Architecture for the Support of High Performance Computing

Hard copy can be obtained by contacting the Academic Press directly at (407) 345 - 4100 and requesting the Invited Paper ''The Purdue Workshop on Grand Challenges in Computer Architecture for the Support of High Performance Computing'', The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 16, Number 3, November 1992, pages 199 - 211.

Report of the Purdue Workshop on Grand Challenges in Computer Architecture for the Support of High Performance Computing - 1991

The Purdue Workshop on Grand Challenges in Computer Architecture for the Support of High Performance Computing was sponsored by the National Science Foundation to identify critical research topics in computer architecture as they relate to high performance computing. Following a wide-ranging discussion of the computational characteristics and requirements for the grand challenge applications, the workshop identified four major computer architecture grand challenges as crucial to advancing the state of the art of high performance computation in the coming decade. These are:

• Idealized Parallel Computer Models
• Usable Peta-ops (10^15ops) Performance
• Computers in an Era of HDTV, Gigabyte Networks, and Visualization
• Infrastructure for Prototyping Architectures

Curators: Michele O'Connell (Michele.OConnell@hq.nasa.gov), Lawrence Picha (Larry.Picha@hq.nasa.gov),

Revised: 21 AUGUST 96 (lpicha)