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05101538 Browne, Jim Dongarra, Jack Karp, Alan Kennedy, Ken Kuck, David 1988 Gordon Bell Prize. IEEE Software 06, No.03, 78-85 (1989). 1989 IEEE Computer Society EN scientific problems supercomputers engineering problems static-structures problem Cray Y-MP N-Cube multicomputer fluid-flow problem Crystal Compiler financial modeling application parallel processing

doi:10.1109/52.28127

Summary: The Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in all applications of supercomputers to scientific and engineering problems. A description is given of the winning entry and two honorable mentions. The winning entry, from the raw-performance category, was submitted by Phuong Vu, C. Ashcraft, R. Grimes, J. Lewis and B. Peyton. They presented the solution of a static-structures problem that ran at just over 1 Gflop (billions of floating-point operations) on an eight-processor Cray Y-MP. One honorable mention, in the price/performance category, came from R. Pelz, who used a 1024-processor N-Cube multicomputer to solve a fluid-flow problem using a spectral method with a speedup of about 800. Marina Chen, Young-Il Choo, Jungke Li, and J. Wu received an honorable mention for an entry in which a Crystal Compiler automatically parallelized a financial modeling application.