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A perspective on parallel processing

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Parallel processing is one of the most important areas of computer science research. Experience with highly parallel processing is quite limited today and several architecture, systems, and software alternatives need to be investigated. In particular, much further work is required on software issues. Applications and software problems will be studied and resolved slowly as non-trivial hardware prototypes become available. Two such prototypes are currently being constructed at IBM Research. This paper has tried to place these efforts in proper perspective.

Supported in part by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract Number N00039-87-C-0122 (Multi-processor System Architecture).

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Agerwala, T., Harvey, S.L. (1988). A perspective on parallel processing. In: Houstis, E.N., Papatheodorou, T.S., Polychronopoulos, C.D. (eds) Supercomputing. ICS 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18991-2_2

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