Divide and conquer.
The writer considers whether a network of personal computers (PCs), or a parallel computer, might prove to be as formidable a number cruncher as a supercomputer. Several of the difficulties involved in making a parallel computer out of linked PCs instead of the nodes that are all linked inside a su...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 341; pp. 82 - 84 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
December 14 1996
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