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In addition to the historical account of Mote Carlo Meothod, an accurate prediction of computing was given in 1987 at the end of the article...

> The miracle of the chip, like most miracles, is almost unbelievable. Yet the fantastic performances achieved to date havenot quieted all users. At the same time we are reaching upper limits on the computing power of a single processor.

> One bright facet of the miracle is the lack of macroscopic moving parts, which makes the chip a very reliable bit of hardware. Such reliability suggests parallel processing. The thought here is not a simple extension to two, or even four or eight, processing systems.

> Such extensions are adiabatic transitions that, to be sure, should be part of the immediate, short-term game plan. Rather, the thought is massively parallel operations with thousands of interacting processors-even millions!



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