The fifth generation: artificial intelligence and Japan's computer challenge to the world
The fifth generation: artificial intelligence and Japan's computer challenge to the world
Ultracomputers: a teraflop before its time
Communications of the ACM
High performance computing
Communications of the ACM
Parallel Processing: From Applications to Systems
Parallel Processing: From Applications to Systems
Massively Parallel, Optical and Neural Computing in Japan: A Survey of Major Research Activities
Massively Parallel, Optical and Neural Computing in Japan: A Survey of Major Research Activities
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Since the beginning of the Fifth Generation Computer Systems project in 1982, Japan's public and private research laboratories have been increasingly shifting from a "catch-up" role to one of leadership. For the purpose of increasing understanding of both national and corporate innovation systems, it is instructive to examine this transformation via a case study of a specific technology. The rise in interest in parallel processing systems in both the US and Japan during the 1980s makes it an ideal candidate for such an investigation. To understand the transformation taking place, this survey interviewed 46 people in 16 organizations involved in 33 projects during the first half of 1994.The results suggest the following: the dataflow model of computer architecture has a strong following at both the high and low ends of the technology spectrum; national projects have had a subtle yet significant effect on Japan's parallel processing knowledge base; the rise of a new paradigm, vector parallel processing, offers a compromise between traditional vector supercomputers and commodity MPP systems; companies tend to develop platforms for a specific application first and then move on to general-purpose machines; andcompanies now realize that parallel and distributed processing systems will be important "core technologies" in their futures.