Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS

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From: George R Carr Jr
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1989 04:53

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In article <MCCALPIN.89Oct16141656@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu> mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:

> .... [software for]
>parallel supercomputers is depressingly immature.  I think traditional
>moderately parallel machines (e.g. Cray Y/MP-8) will be able to handle
>existing scientific workloads better than 1000-processor parallel
>machines for quite some time....

I know of several problem domains where I strongly disagree.  More than one
aerospace company is currently looking at 1000+ node parallel machines because
no Cray, ETA, NEC, or other 'conventional' machine can give them the time to
solution required.  The major area of excitement with parallel machines is to
find the problems for which algorithms exist which are now computable which
are not otherwise computable.

George R Carr Jr                  internet: carr@multiflow.com
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From: carr@mfci.UUCP (George R Carr Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
Keywords: parallel machines, supercomputer, problem domains
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Date: 23 Oct 89 04:53:50 GMT
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