0402909%PUCC.BITNET@RUTGERS.EDU (05/03/88)
[ I got this today - 5/2/88 - must have been delayed. Contact
directly for info.
Steve
]
Thursday, April 28th, at 4:00 pm.
High Performance Workstations:
How Parallel Supercedes Vector Processing
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Forest Baskett of Silicon Graphics will speak at the John von
Neumann National Supercomputer Center at the Princeton Forrestal
Center, at 4:00 this Thursday.
During 1988, a number of computer companies are introducing an
altogether new generation of high performance workstations for
use by scientists and engineers. Some of these workstations
adopt Class VI supercomputer-like vector architectures in
deskside packages. Others employ parallelism to achieve
performance. The speaker will argue that parallel processing
supplants vector processing as the architecture of choice.
Forest Baskett has been responsible for much of the historical
development of the computer workstation. He served as a professor at
Stanford for eleven years, and was educated there and at Rice. Baskett
subsequently spent four years at DEC designing that company's RISC
computer base. He is currently vice president for R&D at Silicon
Graphics and an avid sailor.
The talk is open to the public. Refreshments will be served at
3:40 pm. JvNC is located at 665 College Road East, Princeton Forrestal
Center, Plainsboro NJ. For more information, call (609) 520-2000.
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--Una Smith 0402909 at PUCC.bitnet