Table of contents

• User’s guide
• The centrality issue (1972–1987)
  • Gaining dominance
  • Planning crisis and a flood of proposals
  • Attempted resuscitation
  • A diversity of machines
  • Shielding users from complexity
  • Communicating to the public
• The performance gambit (1988–1996)
  • Simulation for all
  • The cost of visualizing computing output
  • The false security of benchmarks
  • Autonomy through regional cooperation
  • Stuttgart’s two-pronged solution
• Network to the rescue (1997–2005)
  • Feasibility study for a national high-performance computing network
  • Metacomputing – a transatlantic experiment
  • Does the university really need an HLRS?
  • Grid computing extends a lifeline
• Users at work (2006–2016)
  • Taking it easy
  • With Gauss to Europe
  • Virtual users, and users in virtual reality
  • Limits to growth
• A history of reconfiguration
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• List of Figures

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