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