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General Overviews of Parallel Computing :h3

These are papers I wrote or contributed to that discuss a
Sandia-centric view of the state of parallel computing.  I freely
admit to a strong distributed-memory message-passing bias.  That is,
I've never thought the following concepts were that useful in
practice: shared-memory machines, SIMD programming methodologies, or
automatic parallelizing compilers.

Of course when you work at Sandia with a series of big
distributed-memory machines and everyone lives and breathes message
passing, you tend to look at the world as one big nail to pound your
favorite hammer on!

[Massively Parallel Computing: A Sandia Perspective], D. E. Womble,
S. S.  Dosanjh, B. A. Hendrickson, M. A. Heroux, S. J. Plimpton,
J. L. Tomkins, D. S.  Greenberg, Parallel Computing, 25, 1853-1876
(1999). ("abstract"_abs1)

:link(abs1,abstracts/parco99.html)

[Massively-Parallel Methods for Engineering and Science Problems],
W. J. Camp, S.  J. Plimpton, B. A. Hendrickson, R. W. Leland,
Communications of the ACM, 37, 31-41 (1994). ("abstract"_abs2)

:link(abs2,abstracts/cacm94.html)

[Is SIMD Enough for Scientific and Engineering Applications on
Massively Parallel Computers ?], S. J. Plimpton, S. S. Dosanjh,
R. B. Krall, in Proc of 37th IEEE International Computer Conference,
COMPCON '92, San Francisco, CA, February 1992. p
95-102. ("abstract"_abs3)

:link(abs3,abstracts/compcon92.html)