Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ellie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!ellie!rapaport From: rapaport@ellie.UUCP (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: ont.events Subject: UB COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM Message-ID: <670@ellie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 08:30:56 EST Article-I.D.: ellie.670 Posted: Wed Nov 6 08:30:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:38:49 EST Distribution: ont Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 60 ======================================================================== PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF OUR COLLOQUIUM NEXT WEEK--IT IS ON A TUESDAY NOT ON OUR USUAL THURSDAY. ======================================================================== UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM QUENTIN F. STOUT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan PLANNING FOR PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTERS In order to solve problems a thousand times faster than they can be solved on current supercomputers, you can either wait a long time until serial or vector computers attain the required speed, or you can use a parallel computer. Unfor- tunately, there are several problems that must be solved before massively parallel supercomputers become a useful reality. This talk examines some of these problems, based on a workshop convened this summer by the Supercomputing Research Center (SRC). The SRC is a recent offshoot of the National Security Agency, and was given a mandate to conduct wide ranging, fundamental, intensive research in the area of parallel computing. The summer workshop was held to help the SRC develop a plan of research for its first few years. Tuesday, November 12, 1985 3:30 P.M. Knox 14, Amherst Campus Wine and cheese will be served at 4:30 P.M., 224 Bell Hall For further information, call (716) 636-3181. -- William J. Rapaport Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 (716) 636-3193, 3180 uucp: ...{allegra,decvax,watmath}!sunybcs!rapaport ...{cmc12,hao,harpo}!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!rapaport cs: rapaport@buffalo arpa: rapaport%buffalo@csnet-relay bitnet: rapaport@sunybcs