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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"thinking machines"”.
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Compiler techniques for optimizing communication and data distribution for distributed-memory multicomputers
… the IBM SP-1 /SP-2, the NCUBE/2, and the Thinking Machines CM-5, offer significant advantages over shared-memory multiprocessors in terms of cost and scalability. However, lacking a global address space, they present a very difficult programming model in which the user must specify how …
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Patrick Geddes: Synthetic Vision
… employ of a graphic device, which he called his "thinking machines," and which served as a paradigmatic strategy to forge new relationships within sets of ideas. Such an approach aligned him with the taxonomic strategies in practice in the formation of museum collections and display of the …
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Simultaneous exploitation of task and data parallelism in regular scientific applications
… such as the IBM SP-2, the Intel Paragon and the Thinking Machines CM-5 offer significant advantages over shared memory multiprocessors in terms of cost and scalability. Unfortunately, the utilization of all the available computational power in these machines involves a tremendous programming …
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A class library approach to concurrent object-oriented programming with applications to VLSI CAD
… distributed memory multicomputers from Intel and Thinking Machines, and hybrid architectures comprising IP network-connected clusters of Sun uni- and multiprocessors. We demonstrate our approach through an examination of the parallelization process for two existing unstructured serial applications …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the quasi-religious nature of science fiction, apocalypse as a cleansing agent of the universe, and the myths of noble survivors of post-apocalyptic literature …