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Foil 10 Why is it hard to use HPCC in Manufacturing-II?

From HPCC Defense Applications IDA Presentation -- October 31,1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

In March 1994 Arpa Meeting in Washington, Boeing(Neves) endorsed parallel databases and not parallel simulation
  • Similar comment made to me by Major Brokerage
    • "Financial Modelling (on MPP) gets the headlines but information services are the critical problem"
Aerospace Engineers are just like University Faculty
  • They prefer to use their own workstations and not central Supercomputers
There is perhaps some general decline of Supercomputer Industry
  • As performance of technology increases
  • Users don't take full advantage of this performance Increase
    • Rather buy somewhat more powerful computers at somewhat lower cost



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