Frontiers of Supercomputing II |
1 | PREFACE |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
9 | 1— OPENING, BACKGROUND, AND QUESTIONS POSED FOR THIS CONFERENCE |
1 | Welcome |
1 | • | Supercomputing As a National Critical Technologies Effort |
5 | Goals for Frontiers of Supercomputing II and Review of Events since 1983 |
2 | Current Status of Supercomputing in the United States |
2 | 2— TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE |
• | Overview |
1 | • | Supercomputing Tools and Technology |
• | High-Performance Optical Memory Technology at MCC |
1 | • | Digital Superconductive Electronics |
Enabling Technology: Photonics |
23 | 3— VECTOR PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE |
10 | • | Vector Architecture in the 1990s |
2 | • | In Defense of the Vector Computer |
5 | • | Market Trends in Supercomputing |
3 | • | Massively Parallel SIMD Computing on Vector Machines Using PASSWORK |
• | Vectors Are Different |
32 | 4— SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEMS |
8 | Symbolic Supercomputing |
1 | • | Parallel Processing: Moving into the Mainstream |
3 | • | It's Time to Face Facts |
1 | • | Large-Scale Systems and Their Limitations |
9 | A Scalable, Shared-Memory, Parallel Computer |
8 | • | Looking at All of the Options |
33 | 5— SYSTEMS SOFTWARE |
3 | • | Parallel Software |
5 | Supercomputer Systems-Software Challenges |
8 | • | Future Supercomputing Elements |
7 | • | Compiler Issues for TFLOPS Computing |
7 | Performance Studies and Problem-Solving Environments |
3 | • | Systems and Software |
17 | 6— USER-INTERFACE SOFTWARE |
10 | • | Parallel Architecture and the User Interface |
1 | Object-Oriented Programming, Visualization, and User-Interface Issues |
4 | Software Issues at the User Interface |
2 | • | What Can We Learn from Our Experience with Parallel Computation up to Now? |
17 | 7— ALGORITHMS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING |
5 | Parallel Algorithms and Implementation Strategies on Massively Parallel Supercomputers |
5 | • | The Interplay between Algorithms and Architectures: Two Examples |
5 | Linear Algebra Library for High-Performance Computers |
1 | • | Design of Algorithms |
• | Computing for Correctness |
21 | 8— THE FUTURE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT |
• | Interactive Steering of Supercomputer Calculations |
4 | • | A Vision of the Future at Sun Microsystems |
3 | • | On the Future of the Centralized Computing Environment |
Molecular Nanotechnology |
13 | Supercomputing Alternatives |
10 | 9— INDUSTRIAL SUPERCOMPUTING |
2 | Overview of Industrial Supercomputing |
1 | • | Shell Oil Supercomputing |
• | Government's High Performance Computing Initiative Interface with Industry |
7 | An Overview of Supercomputing at General Motors Corporation |
• | Barriers to Use of Supercomputers in the Industrial Environment |
13 | 10— GOVERNMENT SUPERCOMPUTING |
• | Planning for a Supercomputing Future |
5 | High-Performance Computing at the National Security Agency |
5 | The High Performance Computing Initiative: A Way to Meet NASA's Supercomputing Requirements for Aerospace |
• | The Role of Computing in National Defense Technology |
3 | • | NSF Supercomputing Program |
10 | 11— INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY |
10 | A Look at Worldwide High-Performance Computing and Its Economic Implications for the U.S. |
• | Abstract |
10 | A Brief Technical Overview of the Present-Day Landscape |
The Japanese Challenge and "McAdams's Laws" |
• | The Future |
• | References and Bibliography |
Economics, Revelation, Reality, and Computers |
33 | 12— EXPERIENCE AND LESSONS LEARNED |
2 | • | Supercomputing since 1983 |
14 | Lessons Learned |
1 | The John von Neumann Computer Center: An Analysis |
9 | • | Project THOTH: An NSA Adventure in Supercomputing, 1984–88 |
3 | The Demise of ETA Systems |
4 | • | FPS Computing: A History of Firsts |
7 | 13— INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE: POLICY AND ECONOMICS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING |
Why Supercomputing Matters: An Analysis of the Economic Impact of the Proposed Federal High Performance Computing Initiative |
• | Government As Buyer and Leader |
• | Concerns about Policies and Economics for High-Performance Computing |
1 | • | High-Performance Computing in the 1990s |
• | A High-Performance Computing Association to Help the Expanding Supercomputing Industry |
1 | The New Supercomputer Industry |
2 | • | The View from DEC |
3 | • | Industry Perspective: Remarks on Policy and Economics for High-Performance Computing |
6 | 14— WHAT NOW? |
4 | Conference Summary |
• | The High Performance Computing Initiative |
• | Government Bodies As Investors |
• | Realizing the Goals of the HPCC Initiative: Changes Needed |
1 | • | The Importance of the Federal Government's Role in High-Performance Computing |
• | Legislative and Congressional Actions on High-Performance Computing and Communications |
• | The Federal Role As Early Customer |
1 | • | A View from the Quarter-Deck at the National Security Agency |
• | Supercomputers and Three-Year-Olds |
• | NASA's Use of High-Performance Computers: Past, Present, and Future |
• | A Leadership Role for the Department of Commerce |
• | Farewell |
1 | CONTRIBUTORS |