Supercomputers Directions in Technology and Applications (1989) / Chapter Skim
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3. Introduction
3. Introduction
Pages 13-18
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The constant references to the supercomputer as the steam engine of the information age or the machine tool of the l990s are shorthand attempts to capture that idea. And yet probably not more than 15 percent of the Fortune 500 companies own supercomputers, so supercomputers are not seen as being fundamental to all research, development, and manufacturing today.
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This consisted of creating national Supercomputer centers and beginning to build what Senator Gore referred to as the "superhighways of the information age." This proposed national network would hook together the Supercomputer centers with the research universities in the country, thereby coupling the personal computers or workstations on the investigators' desks with the remote supercomputers. That program now funds five Supercomputer centers.
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Over 60 researchers from Kodak have come to the NCSA Interdisciplinary Research Center in the last 2 years to convert codes that run on ordinary computers without visualization to ones that work in a modern distributed environment of supercomputers networked to mainframes and workstations. They can work with some of the world's experts in visualization technologies to create visual interfaces to the massive numeric data fields they compute.
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She creates her art by taking the numeric output of supercomputers, in areas of science, engineering, and mathematics, and then working with what she terms a "Renaissance team" an artist, a scientist, and a computer scientist to create beautiful visualizations. Scientists are able to see their results through this teamwork in ways that they, as individual scientists, would never have known how to do, and the visual result ends up as pure art that is being shown in galleries all over the United States, and now internationally.
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He was a member of the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research Center group, that troop of very exceptional people who generated many of the modern ideas about workstationhuman interfaces and hardware construction. He joined Apple in 1980 and is currently vice president for advanced technologies.
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