This paper is from a keynote address to the IEEE International Conference on Computer Languages, October 9, 1988. The reader should be warned that this talk was prepared with these expectations in mind.
Parallel computers offer the potential of great speed at low cost.
The promise of parallelism is limited by the ability to program parallel machines effectively. This paper explores the opportunities and the problems of parallel computing. Technological and economic trends are studied with a view towards determining where the field of parallel computing is going.