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This paper reviews the experience of a task force of research faculty at the University of Georgia charged with evaluating alternative strategies and products to satisfy campus numerically intensive computing requirements. A survey of computer architectures examined by the task force is presented as well as the status of Fortran compiler technology on the systems examined. A discussion of some of the issues involved in effectively assessing system performance is also provided. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative strategies considered by the task force to provide high performance computing resources.
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McRae, W.B. (1991). High Performance Computing in Academia: A Perspective. In: Landau, D.P., Mon, K.K., Schüttler, HB. (eds) Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics III. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76382-3_14
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