Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Massively parallel is a description which appears in computer science, life sciences, medical diagnostics, and other fields. A massively parallel computer is a distributed memory computer system which consists of many individual nodes, each of which is essentially an independent co ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Massively parallel is a description which appears in computer science, life sciences, medical diagnostics, and other fields. A massively parallel computer is a distributed memory computer system which consists of many individual nodes, each of which is essentially an independent computer in itself, and in turn consists of at least one processor, its own memory, and a link to the network that connects all the nodes together. Nodes communicate by passing messages, using standards such as MPI. Nearly all supercomputers as of 2005 are massively parallel, with the largest having several hundred thousand CPUs. The cumulative output of the many constituent CPUs can result in large total peak FLOPS (FLoating point Operations Per Second) numbers.