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December Chapter Meeting


The Past, Present, and Future of Supercomputing

Dr. Paul Buerger

Thursday, December 17, 2009
Upper Arlington Main Library, Meeting Room A

This talk involves a casual stroll through some interesting computer hardware of the past forty or so years with some speculation about future directions.

Early supercomputers were just the fastest systems around. However, from early on parallelism has played a major role. From vectors to clusters, parallelism at some level has been involved. Currently, supercomputers consist of thousands of PC's or game computers. Future supercomputers may consist of millions of elements designed for cell phones or other hand-held devices.

Our Vice-Chair, David Clouse, would like to hear from you that you are coming by e-mail to cocacm@acm.org, or by telephone at 614-471-7983.

For additional information about the meeting, see December meeting.



 

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COCACM needs more involvement from you, the membership. We need more people at our monthly meetings. If you have topics that would bring you to our meetings, please let us know. We will try to get speakers for those topics. If you have friends who are interested in computing, please let them know about us. Make sure they know our website, www.acm.org/chapters/cocacm. Without your support we cannot function as an organization. "All members are welcome at board meetings," come, and see where you can help. We are staring at the need to cease operations and turn over our treasury to ACM. Those few thousand dollars wouldn't help ACM very much. They could buy you a viable local program, if you participate.



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