Projects a Successful Organization Should Undertake as Top Priority

Abstract

Vendors of parallel computers or advanced communications gear, and their advisors in academe, might object to the statements made about failures with HPCC and other programmes by suggesting that it is ‘not they, but their sponsors who press for emphasis on hardware rather than software’. A similar empty argument would be that it is ‘not they, but technology that creates incompatibility among computers’. People who say so evidently forget that software and hardware heterogeneity in successive product releases is generally due to bad management, not to chance:

• In the case of Intel Scientific there is no program portability between iPSC and Paragon.

• Thinking Machines provides no software compatibility between CM-2 and CM-5.

• Neither is there software portability among the wares of the different network vendors.