jb@otter.hple.hp.com (Jason Brown) (02/23/88)
To the world,
I have just read a book entitled "Supercomputers of today and tomorrow the
parallel processing revolution", by richard a jenkins. (TAB press). This book
goes through the basics of parallel processing and what is happening in the PP
world at the moment. The book was wriiten in 1985 and is some what put of data
, I should imagine.
In one of the chapters he mentions many different approaches to PP but the
only thing is that he does not go into much detail. This is hardly suprising
since the book is really only an introduction to PP.
The are several approaches which are very interesting. I am appealing to
anybody out ther who has any information about the machines, approaches or
projects that I have mentioned below. If anybody can send me information I
would be greatful. I want to read in more detail the approaches and hopefully
find out why a certain person has chosen that approach and not one of the
others. If you could email me and then I can send you my address if you have
hard copies of papers or matterials.
Anybodies comments or views would also be appreciated on the list of
approaches mentioned below but also on any others thay know of. My interest
is purely personnel interest as I will be going to Edinburgh university to
study Comp. Sci. & AI. After that I will be moving into research on PP.
Any help received is received with many thanks.
Project Title Originator,University where research is
or Machines Name. being done.
COSMIC CUBE Originator unknown,
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
OMEGA NETWORK Originator unknown,
(ULTRACOMPUTER) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
NON-VON Originator : DAVID SHAW,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
MPP Originator unknown,
(MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING) NASA.
DATA FLOW ARCHITECTURES Originator : JOHN DENNIS.
(STATIC FLOW ARCH.) MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
MAGO REDUCTION MACHINE Originator : GYULA MAGO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
MIDAS Originators : CREVE MAPLES & DOUGLAS LOGAN
LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA.
It would be nice if I could contact the originators, so if anyone reads this
who is at any of the above places and knows, or can find out where the person
is maybe you could get them to contact me.
Thanks again to all those who can help me in any way. An address of the person
or a person whos working on the project would be great.
cheers
Jason Brown (jb)
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******************************************************************************ian@esl.UUCP (Ian Kaplan) (02/25/88)
jb@otter.hple.hp.com (Jason Brown) writes: > >To the world, > >I have just read a book entitled "Supercomputers of today and tomorrow the >parallel processing revolution", by richard a jenkins. (TAB press). This book >goes through the basics of parallel processing and what is happening in the PP >world at the moment. The book was wriiten in 1985 and is some what put of data >, I should imagine. > [ text deleted ] > >It would be nice if I could contact the originators [of the parallel >machines]>, so if anyone reads this who is at any of the above places >and knows, or can find out where the person is maybe you could get >them to contact me. > Jason: I could not get your address to word via e-mail, so here is my note. If you want a more detailed survey read the book by Hwang and Briggs. Its title is something like "Parallel Processor Architecture". I think that it was published by McGraw-Hill. You are rather naive in your belief that someone is going to send you a note explaining all the trade offs in the parallel architecture they chose. Such an explaination would be more appropriate as a seminar or course, rather than a short note. Also, why should researchers spend their time when you will not even spend the time to go to the library and read more extensively on the topic. Tab press is infamous for printing trash. You also asked for references. Even a reference list would be extensive. However, a technical library should have some bibliographies. The big conference on parallel processing is the International Conference on Parallel Processing. Look at the conference proceedings. The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture also has articles on parallel processings on occasion. Finally, take a class on computer architecture. You cannot understand the tradeoffs in parallel architectures unless you understand standard serial and vector architectures. Ian L. Kaplan ESL, Advanced Technology Systems M/S 302 495 Java Dr. P.O. Box 3510 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3510 esl!ian@ames decvax!decwrl!\ sdcsvax!seismo!- ames!esl!ian ucbcad!ucbvax!/ / ihnp4!lll-lcc!