Why I like Vector Computers

The requirements for supercomputing in technical sciences in an industrial R&D environment or in a versatile job profile university environment are specified: 100 GFLOPS sustained performance, 64 Gwords main memory, flexible data transfer operations (compress, expand, merge, gather, scatter), portable Fortran 8x, fastest scalar speed. Then the reasons are discussed why the”usual” trend to parallelism via MM) (message passing systems, shared memory systems, hybrid systems) fail to meet the requirements of the users. The proposition of a Continuous Pipe Vector Computer (CPVC) serves to explain in the form of 10 notes the ideas how parallelism should be organized that it is completely transparent to the user. The proposed CPVC minimizes the lost cycles of a supercomputer so that one gets close to the theoretical peak performance by the most user-friendly architecture.