jb%otter.lb.hp.co.uk@RELAY.CS.NET (Jason Brown) (02/24/88)
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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******************************************************************************eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) (02/24/88)
In article <1004@hubcap.UUCP> jb%otter.lb.hp.co.uk@RELAY.CS.NET (Jason Brown) writes: >I have just read a book entitled "Supercomputers of today and tomorrow the >parallel processing revolution", by richard a jenkins. (TAB press). Yeah, Terrible book. > Statements asking about good architectures. Sorry Jason: NO SILVER BULLETS. No one best parallel processing architecture. In fact the use of the word "parallel" is deceiving. Those who talk the most about parallel processing are doing the least because they don't understand the problems. > Project Title Originator,University where research is >or Machines Name. being done. > > COSMIC CUBE Originator unknown, > CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Project leaders (now two separate projects:) The first PhD thesis was by Bart Locanthi (The Homogeneous Machine) Current Credit: Charles Seitz (CS) and Geof Fox (Physics) at least 6 companies working on Cubes. > OMEGA NETWORK Originator unknown, > (ULTRACOMPUTER) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Jack Schwartz, Allen Gottlieb, et al. > MPP Originator unknown, >(MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING) NASA. Ken Batcher, Goodyear Aerospace Contact Jim Fisher NASA GSFC > DATA FLOW ARCHITECTURES Originator : JOHN DENNIS. > (STATIC FLOW ARCH.) MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Prof. Emeritis. > MIDAS Originators : CREVE MAPLES & DOUGLAS LOGAN > LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABS OF THE UNIVERSITY > OF CALIFORNIA. Since taken apart. Creve I believe took a job at Sandia. >From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize." {uunet,hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene
salmon%tybalt.caltech.edu@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lynn G. Salmon) (02/24/88)
I tried to email but it didn't get through. In article <1004@hubcap.UUCP> jb%otter.lb.hp.co.uk@RELAY.CS.NET (Jason Brown) writes: > Project Title Originator,University where research is >or Machines Name. being done. COSMIC CUBE Originator unknown,-> G. Fox & C. Seitz CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY For a list of publications write to: Geoffrey Fox 158-79 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 OMEGA NETWORK Originator unknown, -> A. Gottlieb & M. Kolos (ULTRACOMPUTER) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY _____________________ Lynn <>< ________ / o \ / salmon@tybalt.caltech.edu \__ `` / \ /_____/
esh%otter.hple.hp.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Sean Hayes) (03/04/88)
> DATA FLOW ARCHITECTURES Originator : JOHN DENNIS. Isnt that Jack B. Dennis ? (Jason I have some stuff by him if you want to read it) > (STATIC FLOW ARCH.) MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Sorry to be a pedant. _________________________________________________________________________ |Sean Hayes, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, England| |net: esh@hplb.uucp esh%shayes@hplabs.HP.COM ..!mcvax!ukc!hplb!esh|