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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Breakthrough at Sandia?
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Date: 25 Mar 88 13:02:45 GMT
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Results were presented at IEEE COMPCON last month.  I just joined the
audience when Alan Karp polled the audience (I saw the plaque Alan made).
The code was run on a 1024 processor NCUBE.  The paper is in the conference
proceedings:

%A John L. Gustafson
%A Gary R. Montry
%T Programming and Performance on a Cube-Connected Architecture
%J Compcon '88
%I IEEE
%C San Francisco, CA.
%D February -March, 1988
%P 97-100
%K NCUBE hypercubes, Ensemble Paradigm, Language, Debugging,
Communications, Load Balance

I have problems with the way Alan polled the audience to achieve consensus
(He should have seriously asked, "How many don't care or don't know whether
they regard this as a "real application.")  The problem was scaled up from
the one processor case.

Grrrrr...

>From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

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