1988 Gordon Bell Prize

Author

Browne, Jim ; Dongarra, Jack ; Karp, Alan ; Kennedy, Ken ; Kuck, Dave

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

6

Issue

3

fYear

1989

fDate

5/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

85

Abstract

The Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in all applications of supercomputers to scientific and engineering problems. A description is given of the winning entry and two honorable mentions. The winning entry, from the raw-performance category, was submitted by Phuong Vu, C. Ashcraft, R. Grimes, J. Lewis and B. Peyton. They presented the solution of a static-structures problem that ran at just over 1 Gflop (billions of floating-point operations) on an eight-processor Cray Y-MP. One honorable mention, in the price/performance category, came from R. Pelz, who used a 1024-processor N-Cube multicomputer to solve a fluid-flow problem using a spectral method with a speedup of about 800. Marina Chen, Young-Il Choo, Jungke Li, and J. Wu received an honorable mention for an entry in which a Crystal Compiler automatically parallelized a financial modeling application.<>

Keywords

parallel processing; Cray Y-MP; Crystal Compiler; N-Cube multicomputer; engineering problems; financial modeling application; fluid-flow problem; scientific problems; static-structures problem; supercomputers; Awards;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.28127

Filename

28127