The Boston Globe, December 6th, 1998
Formerly A theoretical physicist, Roscoe Giles, 49 and a Boston University professor of electrical and computer engineering, is a computing pioneer and an advocate for minorities in science. What is supercomputing? Computer power is doubling roughly every 18 months, and what was a supercomputer 20 years ago is now a desktop machine. In recent years, the favored term is "high-performance computing." The technology of high-end computers has essentially merged with the technology of the desktop and PC. Earlier, there was a big firebreak in the technologies, when supercomputers were liquid-cooled ...
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