NPAC Technical Report SCCS-214

Lessons from Massively Parallel Applications on Message Passing Computers

Geoffrey C. Fox

Submitted December 21, 1995


Abstract

We review a decade's work on message passing MIMD parallel computers in the areas of hardware, software and applications. We conclude that distributed memory parallel computing works, and describe the implications of this for future portable software systems.


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