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The last few years have seen fast changes in the high performance computing field. Some of these changes are related to the computer hardware and architecture. Multi/many core architecture have become prevalent, with architectures more or less exotic and heterogeneous. The overall theoretical computational power of the new generation processors increased greatly, but their programmability still lacks confidence. The changes in shape of the newest architectures has come so rapidly, that we are still deficient in terms of high performance libraries and applications in order to take advantage of all these new features.
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Bosilca, G. (2007). The X-Scale Challenge. In: Cappello, F., Herault, T., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_1
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