Parallel Computer Architecture

CHAPTER 12 Future Directions

techniques for addressing these issues will remain valid; however, the way that they

are employed will surely change as the critical coefficients of performance, cost,

capacity, and scale continue to change. New algorithms will be invented, changing

the fundamental application workload requirements, but the basic analysis tech-

niques will remain.

Given the approach taken throughout the book, it only makes sense to structure

the discussion of potential future directions around hardware and software. For

each, we need to ask which trends are likely to continue, thus providing a basis for

evolutionary development,