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From: lisper-bjorn@YALE-BULLDOG.ARPA (Bjorn Lisper)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Breakthrough at Sandia?
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Date: 30 Mar 88 13:23:08 GMT
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In article <1197@hubcap.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
:I just read an article about some achievement at Sandia in regards
:to getting close to the theoretical maximum improvement that a 
:multi-processor has over a single processor. (ya know, really running
:1K times faster on a 1K processor machine).  Unfortunately, it was
:in EE times, so the technical details were a little light (:-)  
:The results are to published in a "journal of the Society for 
:Industrial and Applied Mathematics," according to this article, and
:the guys responsible got a prize at IEEE's compcon last month.  
:
:Does anyone know anything more about this?

Hmm, I wonder how he can achieve this for inherently sequential problems. I
think there are some hooks somewhere.

Do you know in which of the SIAM journals this is to be published? There are
several. And could you give an exact reference to the article you saw? I
would like to check this out.

Bjorn Lisper