DocumentCode
812640
Title
The Best Deal in Town [Supercomputers]
Author
Grier, David Alan
Author_Institution
George Washington University
Volume
40
Issue
4
fYear
2007
fDate
4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
8
Lastpage
11
Abstract
At one time, supercomputing, a term that was synonymous with the Cray-1, was considered to be the best deal in town. However, by the 1990s, manufacturers began to question the need to continue the development of high-speed computers, turning their attention instead to the potential for developing a "high-capacity and high-speed national research and education computer network."
Keywords
Cities and towns; Laboratories; Military computing; Motion pictures; Nuclear weapons; Power supplies; Programming profession; Supercomputers; Vector processors; Weather forecasting; Computers and society; Cray-1; Supercomputers; computing technology;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MC.2007.146
Filename
4160211
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