Supercomputing Facilities for the 1990s

Abstract

Historically, the rate of change within computing technology has always been high relative to other technological areas and for the next five years, change within supercomputing technology will be particularly fast paced. For example, by the mid-’90s:

• We will see an increase in computational processing and memory capacity by an order of magnitude,

• Visualization will become an integral part of state-of-the-art supercomputer centers,

• The transition to UNIX and related developments will result in a common and rich software environment, and

• Very high-speed networks will be available.

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