f A Comparison between Scalable Shared Memory and Cluster Architectures in a Production Processing Environment

IC-4 A COMPARISON BETWEEN SCALABLE SHARED MEMORY AND CLUSTER ARCHITECTURES IN A PRODUCTION PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT TO BE ADVISED SGI Abstract The talk describes current architectures for High-Performance Computing both SGI's cache-coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access architecture and current clusters together with the programming and system management characteristics of both. This description will look at high-volume production processing for seismic and reservoir simulation and will distinguish between the price per FLOP and production management aspects of using these two approached either as alternatives and in a hybrid combination. 1 EAGE 63rd Conference & Technical Exhibition — Amsterdam The Netherlands 11 - 15