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Parallel Computing’s Golden Age<br />

1980s, early `90s: a golden age for parallel computing<br />

© NVIDIA Corporation 2008<br />

Particularly data-parallel computing<br />

Architectures<br />

Connection Machine, MasPar, Cray<br />

True supercomputers: incredibly exotic, powerful, expensive<br />

Algorithms, languages, & programming models<br />

Solved a wide variety of problems<br />

Various parallel algorithmic models developed<br />

P-RAM, V-RAM, circuit, hypercube, etc.

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