What Is Massively Parallel Computing, and Why Is It Important?
Explains what massively parallel computing is and why it is important to understand the effects it will have on life in the near future. Home robots and virtual worlds; Historical importance of Eli Whitney and the invention of the cotton gin; Reference to the fact that massively parallel computers a...
| Publicado en: | Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Vol. 121; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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MIT Press
Winter92
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| Sumario: | Explains what massively parallel computing is and why it is important to understand the effects it will have on life in the near future. Home robots and virtual worlds; Historical importance of Eli Whitney and the invention of the cotton gin; Reference to the fact that massively parallel computers are scalable in that it is always possible to build a more powerful machine by simply adding more processors; Pipelining, functional parallelism, and data parallelism; Description of communication as the most difficult part of parallel computation; More. |
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