The prevalent theme of Barr and Hickman's article is the multitude of methods for reporting parallel speedup and the difficulty in interpreting results of reported speedup. In fact, the general supercomputing community is plagued by too many terms and phrases for comparing runtime, efficiency, speedup, etc. The authors of the article are very much on target with their observations, as can be demonstrated by a discussion of another metric that is commonly used for comparison of machine performance. INFORMS Journal on Computing, ISSN 1091-9856, was published as ORSA Journal on Computing from 1989 to 1995 under ISSN 0899-1499.

Article Compiler parallelization of an elliptic grid generator for 1990 Gordon Bell prize Share on Authors: Gary Sabot Thinking Machines Corporation, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA Thinking Machines Corporation, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MAView Profile , Lisa Tennies Thinking Machines Corporation, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA Thinking Machines Corporation, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MAView Profile , Alex Vasilevsky Thinking Machines Corporation, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA Thinking Machines Corporation, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MAView Profile , Richard Shapiro United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CT United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CTView Profile Authors Info & Claims Supercomputing '91: Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on SupercomputingAugust 1991 Pages 338–346https://doi.org/10.1145/125826.126020Online:01 August 1991Publication History 0citation161DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads161Last 12 Months0Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access