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- Thursday, March 8, 1984.
Dr. Richard Weinberg of Fifth Generation Graphics, Los
Angeles, California, will speak on ``Supercomputers and
Computer Graphics''.
TIME: 2:30 PM
ROOM: MC 6007
ABSTRACT
Supercomputers are the fastest general purpose comput-
ers available, and provide numerical computation speeds
in excess of 100 million floating point operations per
second. To achieve these speeds, programs must be
structured to take advantage of the vector architecture
of the machine. Supercomputers are now being used in
various computer graphics applications, including ani-
mation. A description of the Cray-1 and Cray-XMP
supercomputers and their use in computer graphics will
be presented.
March 2, 1984