John Gustafson
Programming the FPS T Series
This tech note is significant for two reasons... one is that
it shows Gustafson had fleshed out the concept of scaled speedup
long before the Sandia results made it well-known. The other
is that Gustafson proposed that supercomputers should be
constructed by filling a building with low-cost cabinets
based on commodity VLSI, connected by message passing. This
view was greeted with laughter at the time, but was prescient;
now, every large-scale computer uses this approach.
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