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Choosing a standard microprocessor or a custom processing element as CPU of a massively parallel architecture has major impact on the hardware and software costs. The standard microprocessors have a high performance/cost ratio, but the associated cache hierarchy leads to completely reconsider the programming of the applications that have been developed for vector supercomputers. Low hardware cost is associated to a high software development cost. New approaches, as multithreaded architectures, have low software costs, but expensive hardware costs.
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Etiemble, D., Germain, C. (1995). Standard microprocessors versus custom processing elements for massively parallel architectures. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60222-4_122
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