Parallel computing to start the millennium

START-NG: Delivering Seamless Parallel Computing

StarT-ng is a joint MIT-Motorola project to build a high-performance message passing machine from commercial systems. Each site of the machine consists of a PowerPC 620-based Motorola symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) running the AIX 4.1 operating system. Every processor is connected to a low-latency, high-bandwidth network that is directly accessible from user-level code. In addition to fast mess...

The Ten Hottest Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing for the Next Millennium

What will be the fundamental issues and ideas that will define parallel and distributed computing during the next millennium ? In this panel, a group of distinguished researchers will make the case for their candidates. You decide whether you agree, or stand up and make the case for the ideas that you think are important! The panelists include noted and opinionated experts in parallel computing...

Introduction to Parallel Computing

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Introduction to Parallel Computing

The Domesday Book: Visualization Tools to Explore Identity at the start of the Second Millennium

Exploring patterns of settlement and land ownership have always been of interest to the historian but could these patterns be used, as it were, ‘in reverse’ not simply to display what is already known but to resolve gaps, uncertainties and ambiguities in the historical record? It was the nature of life in the eleventh century that individuals were rarely named uniquely and were frequently known...