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OF PARALLEL
COMPUTING
JACK DONGARRA
University of Tennessee
IAN FOSTER
Argonne National Laboratory
GEOFFREY FOX
Indiana University
WILLIAM GROPP
Argonne National Laboratory
KEN KENNEDY
Rice University
LINDA TORCZON
Rice University
ANDY WHITE
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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PREFACE
During its 11-year lifetime, the Center for Research on putation (CRPC),
a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, was focused on
research and technology development that would be needed to make -
puting “truly usable.” Over