Access to these facilities opens up new possibilities for my research, avenues that I would not even consider unless I had guaranteed access to extensive computational resources. Today, I have three projects that require access to parallel architectures. Steve MacDonald is working on building an object-oriented parallel programming environment, and needs access to at least 32 processors to benchmark his system. Diego Novillo is developing new technologies for parallel compilation and needs parallel applications to test his system on. Andreas Junghanns is researching new techniques for searching large combinatorial search spaces.
Parallel search is one technique for reducing the time one has to wait to see the results.