Caltech Concurrent Computation Program annual report, 1984--1985: Final technical report
Geoffrey Fox · 1985
This report describes the current status of the Caltech Concurrent Computation Program, which is a major effort at both the Caltech campus and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). The major goal of the program is to develop the capability of concurrent processors for general purpose computation with special emphasis on science and engineering. An important feature of our approach is that the members of the project are scientists who lead in the use of computational techniques in their respective research fields, and have already developed state-of-the-art programs on sequential machines. Computers whose (hypercube) architectures ''scale'' to a large number of nodes are being developed and, consequently, to much greater computational power than any sequential machines. It has been possible to take advantage of advances in computer science and applied mathematics in all three areas of hardware, software and algorithms. The project currently includes researchers in applied mathematics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer science, condensed matter, geophysics, high energy physics, image processing, and structural mechanics.