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Jeff Carroll (carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com) writes:

>     I think there are two kinds of people who use transputers.
> One is the computer scientist who is doing research on parallel
> systems, and the other is the scientist or engineer whose
> number-crunching application takes too long to run on his PC.

Some of use want them because our number-crunching applications take too
long on a Cray YMP or its simply more cost effective to use a large transputer
network for an inherently parallel application.  (Never mind that a 25-33MHz
PC or Mac outperforms a VAX ;-)

moses@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (Bill Moses) writes:

>Who wants massively parallel machines anyhow?
>What are the foreseen uses of large parallel machines?

Digital signal processing:  Specifically at my site--a proposed application
is the identification of dim incoming hostile targets (e.g. Exocet missles).
Another application was proposed at CERN to detect weak particle signatures.
Some image-processing applications are better suited for transputers or MIMD
in general.  Real-time non-linear controls for many dynamic systems including
municipal traffic control are possible with parallel machines.

Numerical Analysis: The folks at Los Alamos and elsewhere have been busy
re-writing the book for parallel architectures.  Check recent SIAM proceedings.

Symbolic Analysis:  The nth order hyper-foobar expansion of f(x,y,z).
Soliton or wavelet solutions to the general case of Maxwell's
equations => goodby to ray-tracing.

Combinitorics/Graph Theory:  Transportation and Network optimization,
and of course the TSP.

Others will undoubtably contribute more ...

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