Is Parallel Computing Dead?
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Description: Article about the future of the parallel computing industry.
(October 01, 1994)
The announcement that Thinking Machines would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, although not unexpected, sent shock waves through the high- performance computing community. Coupled with the well-publicized problems of Kendall Square Research and the rumored problems of Intel Supercomputer Systems Division, this event has led many people to question the long- term viability of the parallel computing industry and even parallel computing itself. Meanwhile, the dramatic strides in the performance of scientific workstations continues to squeeze the market for parallel supercomputing. On several recent occasions, I have been asked whether parallel computing will soon be relegated to the trash heap reserved for promising technologies that never quite make it. Washington certainly seems to be looking in the other direction--agency program managers, if they talk of high-performance computing at all, seem to view it as a small and relatively unimportant subcomponent of the National Information Infrastructure.
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