Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!mfci!carr From: carr@mfci.UUCP (George R Carr Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Keywords: parallel machines, supercomputer, problem domains Message-ID: <1091@m3.mfci.UUCP> Date: 23 Oct 89 04:53:50 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1081@m3.mfci.UUCP> <35896@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@mfci.UUCP Reply-To: carr@mfci.UUCP (George R Carr Jr) Organization: Multiflow Computer, Inc. Lines: 19 In article mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: > .... [software for] >parallel supercomputers is depressingly immature. I think traditional >moderately parallel machines (e.g. Cray Y/MP-8) will be able to handle >existing scientific workloads better than 1000-processor parallel >machines for quite some time.... I know of several problem domains where I strongly disagree. More than one aerospace company is currently looking at 1000+ node parallel machines because no Cray, ETA, NEC, or other 'conventional' machine can give them the time to solution required. The major area of excitement with parallel machines is to find the problems for which algorithms exist which are now computable which are not otherwise computable. George R Carr Jr internet: carr@multiflow.com Multiflow Computer, Inc. uucp: uunet!mfci!mfci-la!carr 16360 Roscoe Blvd., Suite 215 fax: (818)891-0395 Van Nuys, CA 91406 voice: (818)892-7172