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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... Drives with optical disk platters that have initial capacities of 300 MB per side are now priced at $4,000-$6,000. · IBM has announced a 3~-inch form factor fixed disk drive with very fast access time and a capacity of 300 MB for its new workstation line.
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... Static microanalytic simulation exercises, by virtue of there being no interaction between micropopulation units during a forward projection in time, are well suited to exploit a multiprocessor architecture, assuming that the overhead of disaggregating the task is not large and the system software allows the disaggregation to be done efficiently. Processing of the micropopulation file can be decomposed into multiple independent threads, each of which processes a subset of the original file.
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