Multiprogramming for hybrid computation

  • Authors:
  • Mark S. Fineberg;Omri Serlin

  • Affiliations:
  • McDonnell Automation Company, St. Louis, Missouri;McDonnell Automation Company, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '67 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 14-16, 1967, fall joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

A significant recent development in hybrid computation is the increasing use of multiprogramming techniques and multiprocessing hardware. To some extent this trend is motivated by the development of multi-user systems in the pure digital field. However, the primary justification for hybrid multiprogramming is economic. It is possible to show that, by sharing a large, powerful central facility, the cost-per-computation can be reduced by almost an order of magnitude, as compared with the alternative of using several smaller, wholly-committed computers.