Supercomputer book expanded

The addendum to the book Scientific Supercomputing www.uni-karlsruhe.de/Uni/RZ/Personen/rz03/addendum/ is an open-ended supplement of additional short lectures on special subjects. In the new Version 1.1 new chapters and sections on workstation processors and SMP servers have been added. Above all we report on our measurements of actual processors in 1999 and we make an interesting comparison from the point of view of scientific computing that reveals meciless the weaknesses of the processors (Chapter A10). The following sections and chapters have been added: A3.6 The MIPS R12000 Processor (300 MHz) in the Origin 2000. A5.5 Measurements of the UltraSparc II, 400MHz in an Entreprise E4500 SMP Server of SUN. A6.4 The PA8500 Processor in the HP9000 V2500 Enterprise (Exemplar) Server. A6.5 The PA8500 Processor in the HP9000 N4000 Server. A7.1 Measurements of the Pentium III Xeon Processor (500 MHz). A8 The Alpha 21264 Processor in Compaq/DEC Servers. A9 The IBM POWER3 Processor and the RS/6000 SPs with SMP Nodes for Scientific Computing. A10 A Comparison of Some Actual Workstation Processors of 1999 for Scientific Computing: A Plead for Bandwidth. The book's web site is at: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/Uni/RZ/Personen/rz03/addendum/

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