HPC Tradecraft for Computer Scientists: What We Stopped Teaching

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The tradecraft behind Cray Research's decades of unmatched success. Not computer science. Not what you were taught. The version that was never public.

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When Performance is Everything5 chapters

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  1. When Performance is Everything

  2. Apprenticeship Transmission

  3. Teaching and Creating Mastery

  4. Transcendent Patterns: Teaching the Process of High-Tech Mastery in Student-Accessible Fashion

  5. If You Want More

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Declassified Documents and Road Map3 chapters

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  1. Appendix A. Analytical Machine Employment (1952)

  2. Appendix B. Cryptanalytic Machines in NSA (May 1953)

  3. Appendix C. HPC Tradecraft Road Map