Solving Rubik's Cube: Disk Is the New RAM.

The article focuses on disk-based computation, an effort to make use of parallel disks in scientific computation. It has reached the mainstream media in 2007 when its proponents showed that Rubik's Cube can be solved in 26 moves or less. Proponents used Rubik's Cube because it is an example of a lar...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 31 - 34
Autores principales: Kunkle, Daniel, Cooperman, Gene
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2008
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          Ph.D candidate in computer science, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
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        Software verification
        Algorithms
        Coding theory
        Algebra
        Data compression
        Digital electronics
        Machine theory
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