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What do analog synthesizers from the ’70s have in common with grid computing?
Both can be massively parallel, with many of the same challenges.
Curtis Roads, a researcher in media arts and technology with a focus on music, wrote programs that spawned thousands of parallel processes for computerized musical composition.
The editor of the Computer Music Journal (published by MIT Press), and co-founder of the International Computer Music Association, Roads is often a featured speaker at conferences such as Supercomputing.
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