Supercomputers for ordinary users

Authors:
David J. Kuck
Affiliations:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
Venue:
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part I
Year:
1972

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Abstract

The best way to begin this paper is by explaining its title. I take "supercomputers" to mean those computers which are the biggest, fastest and most complicated available. And by "ordinary" users I mean "nonsuper" users, i.e., people who have had at most an introductory programming course. The point of this paper is to discuss how computer system design and organization could (and I believe should) proceed in the next ten or twenty years.