[comp.parallel] You asked for it

eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) (04/11/88)

%A John L. Gustafson
%A Gary R. Montry
%A Robert E. Benner
%Z Sandia National Labs.
%T Development of Parallel Methods for a 1024-Processor Hypercube
%J SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing
%V 9
%N 4
%D July 1988
%K fluid dynamics, hypercubes, MIMD machines, multiprocessor performance,
parallel computing, structural analysis, supercomputing, wave mechanics
%X Introduces concept of operation efficiency, scaled speed-up.
Also covers communication cost, beam strain analysis, and a bit on
benchmarking.  Winner of 1988 Bell and Karp Prizes.

Gary sent this preprint to me (several of usi actually).  Looks good.  I
could post the eqn, but 1) I don't touch type and this new BitGraph keyboard
is awkward, and 2) the vast majority of you won't read this anyway.  Oh,
I'll put a recommended reading keyword in it.

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