December 1986 - Vol. 29 No. 12
Features
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.…
Parallel computers with tens of thousands of processors are typically programmed in a data parallel style, as opposed to the control parallel style used in…
Advanced compiler optimizations for supercomputers
Compilers for vector or multiprocessor computers must have certain optimization features to successfully generate parallel code.
Contention is no obstacle to shared-memory multiprocessing
Contention in large-scale shared-memory systems is less of a concern than generally believed. Through careful engineering of a parallel system, the effects of contention…
The intensive use of memory to recall specific episodes from the past—rather than rules—should be the foundation of machine reasoning.
Parallel free-text search on the connection machine system
A new implementation of free-text search using a new parallel computer—the Connection Machine®—makes possible the application of exhaustive methods not…