We are on the verge of a revolution in computing, spawned by advances in computer technology. Progress in very-large-scale integration is leading not so much to faster computers, but to much less expensive and much smaller computers—computers contained on a few chips. These machines, whose cost-effectiveness is expected to be staggering, will make it practical to build very-high-performance computers, or “supercomputers,” consisting of very many small computers combined to form a single concurrent processor.
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Fox et al. (1984) studied this question.