Frontiers of Supercomputing II

This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Supercomputing conference offer perceptive and often controversial views on the emerging computing environment in the United States.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Karyn R. Ames, a writer-editor with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, co-edited the first Frontiers of Supercomputing volume (California, 1986). Alan Brenner is a technical writer in Los Alamos. Lawrence C. Tarbell, Jr., is Chief of the office of Computer and Processing Technology in the Research Group at the National Security Agency. William L. Thompson is Program Director for Computational Science at Los Alamos National Laboratory.