Network of Workstations

• All commodity “killer” technology

  • Processor
  • DRAM
  • Networks and Interconnects
    • ATM is dead
    • Mbit&Gbit Ether?

• Cheap

• Performance

  • faster processors
  • faster floating point
  • faster and larger memory
  • faster networks

• Good “MIPS/FLOPS per $” ratio

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