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Evaluating two massively parallel machines

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 29, Issue 8

Pages 752 - 758

https://doi.org/10.1145/6424.6427

Published: 01 August 1986 Publication History

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Two radically different parallel computers prompt a debate about the best parallel architectures and may mark the commercial viability of parallelism on the supercomputer scale.

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Reviewer: Peter C. Patton

This report is an excellent qualitative evaluation of two recently announced parallel processors. It is presented in the historical context of parallelism in computer architecture, as it developed from earlier sequential machines. The report is necessarily qualitative since performance benchmarks for the Floating Point Systems T Series and the Connection Machine have not yet been published. The author has interviewed several prominent parallel processing researchers and punctuates the report in a very interesting manner with insightful, if opinionated, comments from them. This is definitely recommended reading.

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