The myth we like to believe is that the salvation of the architectural problem will come through silver bullet system software. Actually, I believe the development of algorithms will be the salvation. In the algorithm, Sterling implied, is the answer to the performance problem. Sterling added that advances in aerospace computing will see an expanded sophistication in scalable algorithms. Algorithms have been the principal means by which advances in system performance have been made.
Algorithms are integral to enabling machines to deliver sustained performance.
Along with HTMT and cluster architectures, Sterling also cited the contributions of constellation architecture to increasing computer performance. In addition to optimizing algorithms that solve large problems with limited computer memory, the most surprising result of Vanderplaats' work is a sweet, neoclassical solution for exploiting parallelism in general-purpose optimization. We were able to solve very large problems with very limited memory and to do it with remarkable reliability. The new architectures make scalable algorithms practical for solving a variety of complex problems today.