cross@cs1.wsu.EDU (George Cross) (03/23/88)
Anybody know what this is? Business Week, March 28, 1988 P 75, Developments to Watch "The Speed of a Cray at a Tenth of the Price" ... [paragraph explaining parallel processing omitted] Now computer researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque have developed a formula, or algorithm, that does the trick [to divide up a program so that parallel processors don't get in each other's way]. Using a $2.2 million computer with 1,024 processors from Ncube in Beaverton, Ore., Sandia has solved certain real-life problems up to 1,020 times quicker than a single processor and, in one case, even faster than a $20 million Cray Supercomputer. Sandia says the algorithm should be adaptable to similar computers designed by Intel Systems, Floating Point Systems, and Bolt Beranek & Newman. "We've found a way to tailor problems for parallel processing," says Edwin H. Barsis, Sandia's director of computer science.