MC48 Homework 8 (Fall 1998)

Due: December 11, 1998

Do exercise 8.3 on page 701.
Do exercise 8.4 on page 701.
Do exercise 8.5 on page 701.
Do exercise 8.17 on page 703.
Use the web to update the information on the ASCI Blue Pacific and Blue Mountain machines in Figure 9.15 on page 743. (Both these machines, which were speculative when our book went to press, are now coming on line.) For the Blue Pacific, you can find information at http://www.llnl.gov/asci/news/phase1_SST.html. For the Blue Mountain, you can find information at http://www.lanl.gov/Internal/projects/asci/bluemtn/ASCI_fly.pdf.