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Appendix A: Statement of Task
Pages 53-54

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... 3. Document the results of Phase T The committee will consist of approximately ten recognized experts in the following areas: numerical processing, symbolic processing, algorithm design, computer architecture, computational physics, computational mechanics, and computer performance measurement.
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... However it was believed that the detailed definition of a research program to resolve the problem could be done more productively by the supercomputer community itself than by this, or any other, committee. Consequently no study plan is proposed for Phase II.
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