Paper Info
Title
Numerical applications: organization of a large-scale computer program for space-age geodesy
Abstract
IT IS OFTEN USEFUL to classify particular computer programs as lying within some special category. Labelling a piece of work in advance as a scientific task, a software application, or a problem of pure data manipulation gives some idea of what to expect and is a useful guide when it comes to assigning programmers to the work. When one considers very large applications of computers, any neat pigeon-holing of the task becomes more and more difficult. Large problems of commercial data processing often call for specialized software and few large scientific programs can be written without solving problems of data organization. The program described in this paper is a case in point, where a scientific objective has called for specially designed software and special data-handling procedures. The result, GEO, is a unique synthesis of scientific calculations and program controls, with special devices to ensure efficient use of storage and a satisfactory labelling of program outputs.
Year
DOI
Venue
1965
10.1145/800197.806051
ACM '65 Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
scientific objective,data organization,large scientific program,space-age geodesy,program control,large application,scientific task,large-scale computer program,numerical application,commercial data,particular computer program,scientific calculation,large problem
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
C. Sheffield100.34
J. P. Morris200.34
H. S. Price300.68
Richard S. Varga42417.75