@InProceedings{BarrettBarton92,
  title =        "{G}eneral purpose parallel computers: a standard architecture with a standard programming interface",
  author=        "Barrett,  Geoff and Barton,  Eric and Carden,  Trevor and Duval,  Dominique and Nicole,  Denis A.",
  editor=        "Allen,  Alastair R.",
  pages =        "129--138",
  booktitle=     "{P}roceedings of {W}o{TUG}-15: {T}ransputer {S}ystems - ongoing {R}esearch",
  isbn=          "90 5199 085 5",
  year=          "1992",
  month=         "mar",
  abstract=      "Recent developments in the area of high performance
     computing are pointing the way to a standard architecture
     for parallel computers. This architecture contains a number
     of medium-cost processing elements which communicate with
     each other through a high-bandwidth, low-latency
     interconnect. The design of the interconnect eliminates the
     concerns of \"locality\" which are current
     in the programming of present-day machines. This
     \"flat\" topology and common architectural
     model lead to increased opportunities for establishing
     portable software for high performance computing. The Esprit
     GP-MIMD project has exploited these opportunities by
     developing the architectural model and denning a programming
     interface for software which runs efficiently on machines
     with a range of processing power."
}