Report on the workshop on design & performance issues in parallel architectures
Satish Kumar Tripathi, Steve Kaisler, Sharat Chandran, Ashok K. Agrawala · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 1987
Machines that perform computations in parallel have come into vogue today partly prodded by technology and user needs. In the early spring of '86, a workshop was held under the auspices of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) to investigate the design and the notusually-addressed issue of the performance of these machines. This report serves as a record of the workshop though it does not promise to be a transcript of the various sessions. About a dozen presentations interspersed with sprited open-forum discussions have been paraphrased here. It is hoped that this report remains faithful to the proceedings.