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Foil 4 When will Parallel Computing Take Over ?

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
This is a phase transition
Needs headroom (Carver Mead) which is large (factor of 10 ?) due to large new software investment
nCUBE-1 and CM-2 were comparable in cost performance to conventional supercomputers
  • Enough to show that "Parallel Computing Works"
  • Not enough to take over!
Intel Paragon, CM-5, DECmpp (MP-2), IBM SP-1 have enough headroom?

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