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Article #1457Re: We want massively parallel processors !
From: ONG ENG TENG
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1991 01:53
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1991 01:53
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From article <9103011038.AA15028@perisl.uucp>, by al@perisl.UUCP (Al Schuilenburg): > In comp.sys.transputer <moses@nadc.navy.mil> writes > >> This brings up a simple question: Who wants massively parallel >> machines anyhow? Computer Scientists and Engineers experiment >> with and develop systems - what are they used for? I'm all >> for research for its own sake, but there are actually people >> out there who want to apply it. I suppose the questions are more >> along these lines: What are the foreseen uses of large parallel >> machines? Is this in line with current research? What should >> they be used for (besides weather prediction, Mandelbrot sets, etc.)? >> >> Just wondering I was a Phd intern at ARCO's research facility in Plano, TX last summer, and boy can they use massively parallel machine. One guy has a program that runs on a 6-processor IBM 3090 for weeks! And that was with a *small* dataset!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!uokmax!d.cs.okstate.edu!ong From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: We want massively parallel processors ! Message-ID: <1991Mar3.015308.8115@d.cs.okstate.edu> Date: 3 Mar 91 01:53:08 GMT References: <9103011038.AA15028@perisl.uucp> Organization: Oklahoma State University Lines: 18