
Supercomputing moves to universities and makes possible new ways to organize computational research
Author(s) -
Bunge Peter,
Tromp Jeroen
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2003eo040004
Subject(s) - supercomputer , computer science , power (physics) , parallel computing , operating system , computational science , quantum mechanics , physics
Too cheap to meter? Surely not. But microprocessors have come a long way in delivering inexpensive computing power. The development is eroding the distinction between computers made from low‐cost microprocessors, and more conventional supercomputers operated—for example—at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers. It is also shifting the balance in high‐performance computing (HPC) away from the NSF's Supercomputer Centers, to powerful, local computer facilities run by academic departments and universities.