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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.hypercube
Subject: Re: Parallel Processing
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Date: 24 Feb 88 13:23:30 GMT
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In article <1004@hubcap.UUCP> jb%otter.lb.hp.co.uk@RELAY.CS.NET (Jason Brown) writes:
>I have just read a book entitled "Supercomputers of today and tomorrow the
>parallel processing revolution", by richard a jenkins. (TAB press).

Yeah, Terrible book.

> Statements asking about good architectures.

Sorry Jason: NO SILVER BULLETS.  No one best parallel processing
architecture. In fact the use of the word "parallel" is deceiving.
Those who talk the most about parallel processing are doing the least
because they don't understand the problems.

>   Project Title                Originator,University where research is
>or Machines Name.                           being done.
>
>    COSMIC CUBE                 Originator unknown,
>                                CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Project leaders (now two separate projects:)
The first PhD thesis was by Bart Locanthi (The Homogeneous Machine)
Current Credit: Charles Seitz (CS) and Geof Fox (Physics)
at least 6 companies working on Cubes.

>    OMEGA NETWORK               Originator unknown,
>    (ULTRACOMPUTER)             NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Jack Schwartz, Allen Gottlieb, et al.

>    MPP                         Originator unknown,
>(MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING) NASA.

Ken Batcher, Goodyear Aerospace  Contact Jim Fisher NASA GSFC

>    DATA FLOW ARCHITECTURES     Originator : JOHN DENNIS.
>    (STATIC FLOW ARCH.)         MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Prof. Emeritis.

>    MIDAS                       Originators : CREVE MAPLES & DOUGLAS LOGAN
>                                LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABS OF THE UNIVERSITY
>                                OF CALIFORNIA.

Since taken apart.  Creve I believe took a job at Sandia.

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