| 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 |
| 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 |
| Introduction |
| The John von Neumann Center |
| • | The Proposal |
| • | Consortium for Scientific Computing |
| • | The Universities |
| • | The State of New Jersey |
| • | The NSF |
| • | ETA |
| • | Zero One |
| • | JVNC |
| What Went Wrong? |
| • | Conclusions |
| • | 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 |