Special Issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Novel architectures for high-performance computing

摘要

The last decade has seen an explosion of innovation in computer architectures as Moore's Law collided with the power wall. Processors using heterogeneous collections of many-cores are now becoming common everywhere, with fully programmable graphics processors (GPUs) being employed in laptops, desktops and servers. The smartphones in our pockets now contain heterogeneous many-core processors of equivalent performance to a mid 1980's Cray supercomputer. Reconfigurable processors such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have also received significant attention as one potential solution for efficiently harnessing the continued exponential increases in transistor counts within today's power consumption constrained environments.