Critical Problems in Very Large Scale Computer Systems.

摘要

The research vehicle for this contract is the largest possible computer that can be conceived for the mid to late 1990's. We call this machine an American Resource Computer or ARC. We imagine this machine to occupy several floors of a building. The nation could probably only afford one or two ARC's. The machine will be used to solve large-scale scientific problems having both military and civilian applications. This investigation addresses the hardware technology, software techniques, algorithms, communications, processing elements, and applications. The study is determining the plausibility (not feasibility) of the machine. The technical challenges of such a machine serve as our guiding stimulus for the research carried out and reported here. Keywords: Circuits, Processing elements, Communications topology and routing algorithms, Systems software, Algorithms, Applications. Publications: Journal and Conference Publications; Internal Memoranda; Talks without Proceedings. (KR)