Experimental Parallel Computing Architectures
Published in June 1987
Book
Hardback
318 pages
978-0-444-70234-0 (ISBN)
Description
Increasing sophistication in research has led to a need for larger and faster computers. In this quest, supercomputers are themselves stimulating the redevelopment of the methods of computation. The results play a vital role in the advancement of science, engineering and modern industrial technology. Describing a few of the many research directions being taken to investigate potential parallel-computer designs, this book enables the researcher to keep pace with rapid advances in the development of computer architectures directed towards parallel processing and high execution rates. It discusses projects being conducted at universities, national laboratories and in industry, guided by the applications at those sites and the scientific expertise located there. The projects are not limited to developing a prototype computer; they are building new hardware concepts, and switching networks and developing new algorithms for parallel computing.
Increasing sophistication in research has led to a need for larger and faster computers. In this quest, supercomputers are themselves stimulating the redevelopment of the methods of computation. The results play a vital role in the advancement of science, engineering and modern industrial technology. Describing a few of the many research directions being taken to investigate potential parallel-computer designs, this book enables the researcher to keep pace with rapid advances in the development of computer architectures directed towards parallel processing and high execution rates. It discusses projects being conducted at universities, national laboratories and in industry, guided by the applications at those sites and the scientific expertise located there. The projects are not limited to developing a prototype computer; they are building new hardware concepts, and switching networks and developing new algorithms for parallel computing.
Increasing sophistication in research has led to a need for larger and faster computers. In this quest, supercomputers are themselves stimulating the redevelopment of the methods of computation. The results play a vital role in the advancement of science, engineering and modern industrial technology. Describing a few of the many research directions being taken to investigate potential parallel-computer designs, this book enables the researcher to keep pace with rapid advances in the development of computer architectures directed towards parallel processing and high execution rates. It discusses projects being conducted at universities, national laboratories and in industry, guided by the applications at those sites and the scientific expertise located there. The projects are not limited to developing a prototype computer; they are building new hardware concepts, and switching networks and developing new algorithms for parallel computing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-444-70234-0 (9780444702340)
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Content
Parallel Supercomputing Today and the Cedar Approach (D.J. Kuck et al.). An Overview of the NYU Ultracomputer Project (A. Gottlieb). Questions and Unexpected Answers in Concurrent Computation (G.C. Fox). An Introduction to the IBM Research Parallel Processor Prototype (RP3) (G.F. Pfister et al.). Large Scale Parallel Computation on a Loosely Coupled Array of Processors (E. Clementi, J. Detrich). The Manchester Dataflow Computing System (J. Gurd, C. Kirkham, W. Bohm). The Cornell Parallel Supercomputing Effort (A. Nicolau). The GF11 Parallel Computer (J. Beetem, M. Denneau, D. Weingarten). Index.