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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 8 (August 1992) table of contents

Pages: 26 - 47

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

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Gordon Bell

450 Old Oak Court, Los Altos, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.5 COMPUTER SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
C.5.1 Large and Medium ("Mainframe") Computers
Subjects: Super (very large) computers

Additional Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.0 GENERAL
Subjects: Instruction set design (e.g., RISC, CISC, VLIW)
C.1 PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES

G. Mathematics of Computing
G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

General Terms:
Design, Management

Keywords:
government policy, parallel processing, scientific programming

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