{"title":"The best approach to a large computing capability","authors":"G. P. West","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465557","url":null,"abstract":"The best approach to a large computing capability is to build your own multi-processor system, utilizing the most effective elements available from the leading hardware manufacturers. To understand this approach, it would be useful to describe the type of system which is to be built. It is evident that many of the system characteristics will be prescribed by the application, others will be purely a matter of personal choice. The essential characteristics are few in number and must not be confused with the non-essential characteristics. The remainder of this paper presents a set of do-it-yourself instructions for designing your own multi-processor system which stresses the essential characteristics. The intent being that the reader can follow through these instructions and design his own system for his own particular application. In this way, each reader can have a specific system in mind which he can evaluate critically. Although there would be individual differences in the systems under consideration by different individuals, the essential characteristics would be the same, and discussion would then tend to center about these essential features. The paper concludes with a summary in which the design approach is reviewed in an attempt to emphasize the utility of the approach.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127455635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASP: a new concept in language and machine organization","authors":"D. Savitt, H. H. Love, R. E. Troop","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465496","url":null,"abstract":"The Association-Storing Processor (ASP) consists of a language designed to simplify the programming of non-arithmetic problems, together with a number of radically new machine organizations designed to implement this language. These machine organizations are capable of high-speed parallel processing, and take advantage of the low cost of memory and logic offered by large scale integration (LSI).","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125431449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A resource-allocation scheme for multi-user on-line operation of a small computer","authors":"A. Reiter","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465484","url":null,"abstract":"Recently a great deal of interest has been evident in on-line information retrieval systems in which the retrieval search involves real-time man computer interaction. The advantages of such systems are becoming well known. Operating systems designed to allow on-line time-shared information retrieval have common characteristics which distinguish them from other types of on-line systems. The system designer has to face problems in allocating the available computer resources that are not usually encountered in other contexts.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128342452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some issues of representation in a general problem solver","authors":"George W. Ernst, A. Newell","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465579","url":null,"abstract":"The research reported here is an investigation into the development of a computer program with general problem solving capabilities. This investigation involved the construction of one such computer program called the General Problem Solver (GPS, although more properly GPS-2-6) which was accomplished by modifying an existing program conceived in 1957 by A. Newell, J. C. Shaw, and H. A. Simon.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124601087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large core storage utilization in theory and in practice","authors":"T. A. Humphrey","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465599","url":null,"abstract":"Amid the rapid growth of the computer industry and its attendant expansion of capability, it is relatively easy for the industry to overlook items of potentially vast significance. One such item, mass storage, has been used since 1963 for job shop support, as well as for real time support, of manned space exploration. These applications have shown that mass storage can dramatically reduce requirements for main storage and at the same time improve system performance. This paper relates theoretical software implications of mass storage, in particular the LCS, as used to benefit the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. Here, the IBM Federal Systems Division holds a contract with the NASA to provide real time ground support for manned space exploration.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130602901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive systems of logic networks and binary memories","authors":"I. Aleksander","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465596","url":null,"abstract":"Various adaptive circuit schemes have been suggested since the early proposals by Ashby, McCulloch and Pitts, Rosenblatt, and many others. The way in which these schemes were investigated can be divided into three general classes. Firstly, and predominantly, there is simulation by a digital computer; secondly, we find the use of adaptive threshold elements such as Widrow's 'adaline'; and finally there are techniques which are realizable by conventional logic and memory circuitry such as Andreae's 'Stella' concept, Vernot's tunnel diode nets, and systems of the 'Artron' type.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121190322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recursive techniques in problem solving","authors":"A. Goldstein","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465534","url":null,"abstract":"Recursive methods have long been a standard tool of compiler writers. However, other kinds of computer users have not fully realized that recursion is a powerful technique for solving and programming problems. Even when a language with recursive facilities is not available, an attack on a problem from a recursive point of view will often show how an iterative program can be written.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134375256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief description of privacy measures in the RUSH time-sharing system","authors":"J. D. Babcock","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465528","url":null,"abstract":"Allen-Babcock's RUSH (Remote Users of Shared Hardware) comprises some 80 modules of processors operating in a time-sharing mode on an IBM SYSTEM/360, Model 50. The RUSH Monitor-Executive controls 60 simultaneous terminal users whose programs' reside in a large bulk store (2,097,152 bytes-directly addressable). RUSH co-exists with Operating System/360, option 2 (multi-programming, fixed tasks) and uses the file management schemes of this operating system.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"30 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115992931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RPL, a data reduction language","authors":"F. Bequaert","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465576","url":null,"abstract":"In the MITRE Interferometer Radar System, the outputs from a number of signal processors are recorded in digital form on magnetic tape utilizing an SDS-930 computer. A large number of these data tapes are recorded during system tests and observation of satellites. Data processing programs must be continually written to reduce these data to a form suitable for the analysis of radar performance.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132385343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The oscillating vein","authors":"A. H. Moreno, L. D. Gold","doi":"10.1145/1465482.1465519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465519","url":null,"abstract":"In 1824 D. Barry inserted a glass bulb into the jugular vein of a horse and observed that when the animal was standing the blood flowed intermittently in jets that were not synchronous with either respiratory or heart rates (Brecher). Holt in 1941 arranged a flow circuit where the fluid traversed an interposed segment of collapsible tube and where he could vary at will the ratio of internal pressures. He observed that when the ratio approached zero the tube collapsed and began to pulsate. Brecher in 1952 examined carefully this phenomenon by decreasing the downstream pressure in the vena cava of open chest dogs and concluded that it originated in a momentary complete collapse of a segment of the vein when the extravascular (atmospheric or tissular) pressure exceeded the intravascular pressure. The continuous inflow of blood from the capillaries would then elevate again the intravascular pressure forcing the closed segment of vein to reopen. With repetition of the cycle the vein oscillated at frequencies and amplitudes whose complex relationships he studied in physical analogues made of collapsible rubber tubes. Furthermore, he pointed out the clinical significance of this \"chatter\" during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery when the collecting reservoir for venous return is positioned at an excessively low level. In 1953 Robard and Saiki and in 1955 Robard reported detailed studies on flow through collapsible tubes and on the clinical implications of its instabilities in relation to apparently anomalous flow-pressure patterns in various vessels of the body. Our own studies on the effect of quiet respiration in a two-chamber-hepatic valve model of venous return indicate that in the intact (closed chest) dog and man the venae cavae operate at the limits of equilibrium and that instability may develop during vigorous respirations.","PeriodicalId":127219,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '67 (Spring)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130413334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}