Re: The importance of high-performance computing

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From: "Steve" Stevenson
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:46

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ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>Parallel hardware is obviously a way to get revolutionary gains in
>compute power, but Bill Joy's law suggests that single CPUs will give
>tremendous gains without paying any software irritations (they
>certainly have done great in the last five years).

>If this is indeed the case; that most people use workstation-type
>computers, then the argument changes quite a bit.  There may be room
>for a language with simple semantics like fortran, but only for those
>5% of users who want to use parallel hardware.  I suspect most
>scientific computation out there does not know or care about parallel
>hardware.

>        -ans.
>-- 
>Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
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Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson           steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906

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