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Foil 35 Parallel Processing and Society

From HPCC Status -- TeraFlop to Web and Petaflops -- Success and Failure Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

The fundamental principles behind the use of concurrent computers are identical to those used in society - in fact they are partly why society exists.
If a problem is too large for one person, one does not hire a SUPERman, but rather puts together a team of ordinary people...
cf. Construction of Hadrians Wall


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