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Key issues in high speed computing are identified and discussed. They include technology trends and impediments to industrial use of supercomputers. Other topics are: parallel programming tools and environments, automatic parallelization and algorithms.
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Kowalik, J.S., Neves, K.W. (1993). Software for Parallel Computing: Key Issues and Research Directions. In: Kowalik, J.S., Grandinetti, L. (eds) Software for Parallel Computation. NATO ASI Series, vol 106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58049-9_1
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