Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!hubcap!Eugene From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: A Taxonomy of Parallel Architectures Message-ID: <3920@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 88 21:23:22 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.UUCP Lines: 13 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Additional taxonomies: Hockney and Jesshope's chemistry-like notation taxonomy (advantage with numbers but too contrived) L. Snyder's latest ICPP 88 taxonomy (totally ignoring several of the aforementioned). I also believe Baer has one. Taxonomies have very little real value except to Washington funding bureaucrats (but perhaps I am too harsh?). --eugene