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This version of the multiprocessor/supercomputer bibliography
is composed of entries from a number of sources.
The first source is the annotated bibliography from
Satyanarayanan's book [1980] which also appeared in Computer 1980
and is reproduced here with the permission of Prentice-Hall.
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The next set of sources comes from the collected bibliographies on
multiprocessing (and array processing) by Tartar (1980 ACM),
Hibbard (1980 ACM), and Louie (1980 IEEE computer).
I am grateful that these people compiled earlier lists.
This is followed by the bibliography from my own multiprocessor
survey [Miya 1984].  I have also added a short EPRI survey, and
a survey on distributed processing from Stanford.
Duplicates are painstakingly eliminated, and other information
(keywords, abstracts, and annotations) are consolidated.

	Reference filter for the file (bibliography):

			Rwa
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			Rtar80
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			Rhibb80
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			Rlouie80
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			Rsrvy
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		       /  |  \
		     Other sources

The proceedings from the annual conference on Parallel Processing (in toto),
the conference on Distributed Processing (selective), and Architecture
conference (selective) are also added.  Lastly, this cut contains
references used in my own survey on multiprocessing.

The data flow bibliography comes from Cathy Schulbach who attended
Jack Dennis's Data flow class.
The MPP and DAP bibliographies were added with the help of Jim Fischer
at NASA GSFC in January 1984.
Vineet Singh gave me his distributed processing bibliography in SCRIBE
format, too.

The bibliography as it currently stands is organized by source, but I
wish to consider other ways of organizing it for maintenance.
Future versions of this bibliography will have additional references
to such unreferred journals such as Computer Architecture News,
SIGPLAN, SIAM publications, and so on.  I would also like to further
check some of the sources of the papers I look at.
The topical surveys (Special issues and Computing Surveys) will be hit first.

This bibliography has several obvious problems.
Some of the papers are too old, some have little to do with
multiprocessors or supercomputers (etc.), some papers have no
technical merit (position papers).  Ideally, a good bibliography
should guide one through the morass.  It is hoped to accomplish this
using keywords as machine readable ones such as this bibliography
is suitable for referencing tools like refer.  Hopefully, the
search time will not become too unbearable, less a reorganization
and deletion of files.

Older technical reports have been included.

1) Requests for a bibliography range from those seeking introductory
   survey papers to specialized technical documents.
2) Because this bibliography is in nature readable form, those
   wishing to use it can relie on machine filtering to weed out those
   papers not needed in a reference list.
n) Lastly, mature fields of study can afford to have fixed mature
   bibliographies.  Someday the study of multiprocessors will be mature.

The compiler (me) wishes to maintain this bibliography.  Your suggestions for
additions, deletions, comments to the keyword list, etc. should be
forwarded to me so I may consider and update this work on a regular
basis.  I can be reached (preferably) by electronic mail on several
networks, telephone, and via snail mail.
In particular, short contributed, annotations would help immensly.

	Eugene N. Miya
	MS 233-14
	NASA Ames Research Center
	Moffett Field, CA 94035

	(415)-965-6453
	(FTS 448-6453)

	ARPAnet:	emiya@ames-vmsb
	uucp:		{hplabs,hao,dual}!ames!aurora!eugene

I am grateful to my management who had the patience to oversee my work over
the last year, and to the Life-Science Division and NAS project people
who allowed me to use their machines in compiling work.
Lastly, I could like to thank the following people whom typed
hard and long on this initial version (with me):

	Annette Asano
	Joy Scherr
	Suzanne B. Fuller
	Liz Brusky
	Wayne Anderson
	Becky Getz
	Joe Fasel, III

Special thanks goes to Suzanne whom endured many hours typing
as well as waiting for me at home.

Additional thanks goes to Peter Bain for posting various papers
to "net.mag" on the USENET and saving me work.

***** A Late Note:		*****

During the preparation for the first pre-release distribution, a word
processor floppy containing certain files was damaged.  Several
files pertaining to the parallel processing and computer architecture
symposium were damaged.  Please report any problems to me as soon as
you find them.  We have done as much possible to try and locate damage
in the little time available.

***** March 1985 note		*****

To repeat, if you are trying to maintain a current copy of the bibliography
via ARPAnet ftp, check our directory every few months.  Please avoid adding
annotations, corrections and changes to your copy, forward them to me so
that the concurrent processing community can benefit.

Use care when using refer and lookbib.  We have had some suspect searches.
We may be reaching some refer size limitations.

Using the bibliography:  I have an informal site specific useage
document for sites running lookbib and other 4.2 BSD utilities.
Because general lookup using refer can take time, the preferred
technique for literature citation in a paper is to: first, search
the bibliography using lookbib output to a file.  Edit the file of unwanted
papers, then used this files as a small fast database for formatting
citations using refer.

***** July 1985 note		*****

We have added a file of distributed system references from the
University of Lancaster with the assistance of Vince Aragon and
Dr. C. D. Paice.  Their annotations will be added to those references
where collisions with the existing data base occur.
.....Upon later inspection, an added note: many of the spellingas and
referencing styles in this file are based on English rather
than American conventions.  I have altered some, and corrected
obvious typographic errors, others I have integrated with existing
American entries.  I am reticent at this time to Americanize all
entries for "international" reasons, but if I get complaints,
and problems, I will modify them further [as a last resort].

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