The search for performance in scientific processors: the Turing Award lecture

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The search for performance in scientific processors: the Turing Award lecture

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 31 , Issue 3 (March 1988) table of contents

Pages: 250 - 253

Year of Publication: 1988

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

John Cocke

IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Dileep Bhandarkar , Douglas W. Clark, Performance from architecture: comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization, ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, v.19 n.2, p.310-319, Apr. 1991
	Bruce Christianson, Amdahl's law and end of system design, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, v.19 n.2, p.30-32, Aug. 1991
	J. A. N. Lee, Biographies, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, v.24 n.4, p.53-55, October 2002
	R. F. Sechler , G. F. Grohoski, Design at the system level with VLSI CMOS, IBM Journal of Research and Development, v.39 n.1-2, p.5-22, Jan./March 1995

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.2 HISTORY OF COMPUTING
Subjects: Systems

Additional Classification:
A. General Literature
A.0 GENERAL
Subjects: Biographies/autobiographies

C. Computer Systems Organization
C.1 PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES

K. Computing Milieux
K.2 HISTORY OF COMPUTING
Subjects: Hardware

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Experimentation, Languages, Performance

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