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Evaluating two massively parallel machines

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 29 , Issue 8 (August 1986) table of contents

Pages: 752 - 758

Year of Publication: 1986

ISSN:0001-0782

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Karen A. Frenkel

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Two radically different parallel computers prompt a debate about the best parallel architectures and may mark the commercial viability of parallelism on the supercomputer scale.

REFERENCES

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	1	David L. Kuck, Structure of Computers and Computations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1978
	2	Mauchly, J.W. Digital and analog computing machines. Lecture 3. In The Moon* School Lectures: Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers. vol. I. M. Campbell-Kelly and M.R. Williams, Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge. Mass.. July 6. 1946, p. 37.
	3	W. Daniel Hillis, The connection machine, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986
	4	Slotnick. D.L. The conception and development of parallel processors-A personal memoir. Ann. Hisf. Comput. 4. 1 (Jan. 1983). 20-30.

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	S. A. Zenios , R. A. Lasken, The connection machines CM-1 and CM-2: solving nonlinear network problems, Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Supercomputing, p.648-658, June 1988, St. Malo, France
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	Dieter Haban , Dieter Wybranietz, A Hybrid Monitor for Behavior and Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.16 n.2, p.197-211, February 1990
	Edward Gehringer , Janne Abullarade , Michael H. Gulyn, A survey of commercial parallel processors, ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, v.16 n.4, p.75-107, Sept. 1988
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INDEX TERMS

Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.1 PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
C.1.2 Multiple Data Stream Architectures (Multiprocessors)
Subjects: Parallel processors**
C.5 COMPUTER SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
C.5.1 Large and Medium ("Mainframe") Computers
Subjects: Super (very large) computers

D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications

Nouns: OCCAM

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Performance

REVIEW

"Peter C. Patton : Reviewer"

This report is an excellent qualitative evaluation of two recently announced parallel processors. It is presented in the historical context of parallelism in computer architecture, as it developed from earlier sequential machines. The report is more...

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Karen A. Frenkel: colleagues

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