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Foil 5 Computer Science in the Heat Bath of the World I

From aJava Grande and Pragmatic Programming Environments Invited Talk at ISCOPE 98, Santa Fe -- Dec 10 98. by Geoffrey Fox
In times gone by, we had rather stable heat baths associated with IBM/Digital, UNIX and Microsoft
Note one can have false equilibria when temperatures are low and coupling is small -- if you don't believe me, run a Monte Carlo simulation or try to avoid a false minima in an heuristic optimization
HPCC
Loose Coupling!

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