{"title":"The challenge of parallel function evaluation","authors":"C. Dunham","doi":"10.1145/12492.12495","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A topic that does not seem to have been considered is how to do function evaluations in parallel, that is, how to evaluate a mathematical function, eg. exp, for several different arguments simultaneously on a machine with parallel processors eg. ILLIAC IV: that machine had 64 processors, whose reaction to a (parallel) command from the master computer was either to execute or (on a condition) to decline to execute the instruction.","PeriodicalId":177516,"journal":{"name":"ACM Signum Newsletter","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1986-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Signum Newsletter","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/12492.12495","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A topic that does not seem to have been considered is how to do function evaluations in parallel, that is, how to evaluate a mathematical function, eg. exp, for several different arguments simultaneously on a machine with parallel processors eg. ILLIAC IV: that machine had 64 processors, whose reaction to a (parallel) command from the master computer was either to execute or (on a condition) to decline to execute the instruction.