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Computations in Parallel

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I shall try to elaborate in a few examples, the desideratum of having machines which perform simultaneously and independently on many channels simple arithmetic and logical operations. I want to discuss briefly the advantages of such a system compared to the now prevailing computers which do their work in series. I shall content myself, in this chapter, with a discussion of the uses of such machines without going into technical schemas of their nature and characteristics.

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Mark C. Reynolds Gian-Carlo Rota

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Ulam, S.M. (1986). Computations in Parallel. In: Reynolds, M.C., Rota, GC. (eds) Science, Computers, and People. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0_8

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