The articles presented in our Special Issue on parallel processing on the supercomputing scale reflect, to some extent, splits in the community developing these machines.…
Karen A. Frenkel
Evaluating two massively parallel machines
Two radically different parallel computers prompt a debate about the best parallel architectures and may mark the commercial viability of parallelism on the supercomputer…
Computers, complexity, and the Statue of Liberty restoration
Twentieth-century techniques such as computer-aided engineering and finite-element analysis were used to restore the nineteenth-century monument.
To illustrate the "remarkable extent to which complexity theory operates by means of analogs from computability theory," Richard Karp created this conceptual map or…
Complexity and parallel processing: an interview with Richard Karp
In the following interview, which took place at ACM 85 in Denver, Karp discusses the relation of his work to leading-edge computing topics like parallel processing and…
Report on the microelectronics and computer technology corporation conference
MCC, the consortium of companies headed by Admiral B. R. Inman, that some consider America's reply to Japan's Fifth Generation initiative, invited members and nonmembers…
Toward automating the software-development cycle
Knowledge-intensive rather than labor-intensive processes are being advanced to spur programming productivity.
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