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Pass, Edgar
Brock Control Systems
Atlanta, Georgia
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  The 11 rules of supercomputer design (videotape)
Bell C., University Video Communications, Stanford, CA, 1989.  Type: Book

Gordon Bell is vice president of research and development at Ardent, a supercomputer manufacturer. In this video, he describes the goals, processes, and outcome of the design of Ardent’s first computer, the Titan. The Titan i...

Nov 1 1990  
  Contribution of hybrid and hierarchical representation of knowledge to the explanation of reasoning
Causse B., Hocine A., Touhami H., Halsted Press, New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780470214343)

This brief paper presents a methodology that enables expert systems to explain the reasoning underlying their operation in a given domain of assertions and questions. The expert systems discussed are based on a hybrid (production rules...

Jan 1 1990  
  Neural and massively parallel computers: the sixth generation
Souček B. (ed), Souček M., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780471635338)

This book is a collection of papers that describe various aspects of nontraditional computer architectures. All the architectures discussed are based on biological or parallel structures. The book also describes trends in computing and...

May 1 1989  
  The supercomputer era
Karin S., Smith N., Harcourt Brace &’ Co., Orlando, FL, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780151867875)

This book presents a popular, nontechnical survey of the status of supercomputers in 1987, covering the machines, applications, personalities, politics, and economics of the field at that time. The authors, Sidney Karin, director of th...

Apr 1 1989  
  Case study: IBM’s system/360-370 architecture
Gifford D., Spector A. (ed) Communications of the ACM 30(4): 291-307, 1987.  Type: Article

Although this paper is entitled a case study, it is really an interesting interview with Andris Padegs and Richard Case, two of the people responsible for the design and maintenance of the IBM 360/370 family of architectures....

May 1 1988  
  The architecture of FAIM-1
Anderson J., Coates W., Davis A., Hon R., Robinson I., Robison S., Stevens K. Computer 20(1): 55-65, 1987.  Type: Article

This paper describes a symbolic parallel multiprocessing system called FAIM-1 (Fairchild Artificial Intelligence Machine-1). It is a highly-concurrent, general-purpose, symbolic accelerator for AI computations. Although the hardware d...

May 1 1988  
  Supercomputers and their use
Lazou C., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780198537205)

In this book, Lazou attempts to cover supercomputers in current and in near-future use in the Western world. As of 1985 (the time of the book’s writing), there were about 150 supercomputers in use, made by fewer than ten manu...

Mar 1 1988  
  Advanced compiler optimizations for supercomputers
Padua D., Wolfe M. Communications of the ACM 29(12): 1184-1201, 1986.  Type: Article

The authors survey the problems associated with the analysis of algorithms, stated in FORTRAN, designed for highly parallel supercomputers. Their goal is to explain the types of compiler optimizations that are currently in use on some ...

Aug 1 1987  
  Enhanced maintenance and explanation of expert systems through explicit models of their development
Neches R. (ed), Swartout W., Moore J. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-11(11): 1337-1351, 1985.  Type: Article

The authors describe their current approach to assisting users and developers of expert systems in developing, maintaining, using, and understanding these systems. This approach is a method of constructing expert systems which attempts...

Jan 1 1987  
  Supercomputers--past, present, prospects
Fernbach S. Future Generation Computer Systems 1(1): 23-38, 1984.  Type: Article

This paper is a review of the state of the supercomputer industry as of mid-1984. The author suggests the use of classes to categorize supercomputers:...

Oct 1 1986  
 
 
 
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