Supercomputer software

Journal Article · Thu Mar 03 04:00:00 EST 1988 · Electronics; (United States)

OSTI ID:6201039

Young, J

The supercomputer software community is a hive of activity. New hardware vendors are scrambling to produce the longest list of available applications for their machines; researchers at universities and in private industry are sweating away at the programming problems presented by parallel computers; and a move to Unix is underway. And meanwhile, users and potential users everywhere are looking over the new machines and realizing that new kinds of problems can be tackled with them due both to the plummeting cost of performance and to new kinds of capabilities-most notably small, single-user systems that combine number-crunching power with interactive graphics-oriented user interfaces. Observers who wonder what all the new supercomputers will be used for can rest assured: there are meaningful, profitable uses for these machines. As the product-rollout boom in mid-range and low-end systems proceeds, existing supercomputer users can instantly apply the newly available computation capacity-many of them need just as much power as their budgets will allow. New applications, as they capitalize on falling prices, will in turn drive the market.

• OSTI ID: 6201039
• Journal Information: Electronics; (United States), Journal Name: Electronics; (United States); ISSN ELECA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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990210* -- Supercomputers-- (1987-1989)
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