EditorialSpecial issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JDPC) on novel architectures for high-performance computing
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Editorial
This special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing is dedicated to the research topic of novel computer architectures and their use in high performance computing. As Herb Sutter so memorably described in his 2004 paper “The Free Lunch is Over”, microprocessor designs have seen a dramatic shift towards greater levels of parallelism. In CPU designs, this trend manifests as a rapid increase in core counts and the widths of integrated vector units. GPUs have seen similarly fast
The issue
The Call for Papers for this special issue sought contributions which describe the recent advances and efforts in the emerging field of heterogeneous computing with many core processors and FPGAs. The eight papers which follow can be classified into three categories: those addressing language issues, those addressing implementations of algorithms and those addressing particular application areas.
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