The authors believe that providing security for supercomputer clusters is different from providing security for stand-alone PCs. The types of programs that supercomputer clusters run and the sort of data available on supercomputer clusters are fundamentally different from the programs and data found on stand-alone PCs. This situation might attract a different type of attacker with different goa...

In 1988 a new class of computer, the graphics supercomputer, was introduced by two start-up companies. As a member of both the supercomputer and workstation families, the graphics supercomputer enables both high-performance computation and high-speed, threedimensional, interactive visualization to be performed on a single, integrated system. In Ardent's TITAN system, high floating point operati...