Dear Colleagues, I'm part of a project at UCSD, now in its very early stages and funded through Lawrence Livermore NL, to assess Chinese progress and prospects in High Performance Computing. As you probably know, China has recently exploded onto the HPC scene with 13% of the Top500 systems and growing, including a brief showing at the top with the Tianhe-1A. An article in the most recent Science even suggests that China may be the first to hit the exascale mark. (Incidentally, if this happens and if it happens on Moore's timeline, it will raise some very interesting questions about just how the heck Moore's Law is working across international boundaries and quite different cultural approaches to S&T). We are very much interested in the institutional context & drivers of Chinese HPC growth, and in comparing this with the history of supercomputing elsewhere (US, Europe, Japan). I would be very interested in any work you might recommend on this history. On the US experience I am aware of MacKenzie's excellent 1991 and 1994 articles, books on Pentagon support by Norberg & ONeill 1996 and Akera 2008, NRC volumes on HPC from 1999 and 2004, and Edwards 2010 is certainly relevant too. I also see that there's a volume on the history of the Top500 by Meuer et al coming out later this summer which appears to emphasize mainly technical milestones. What other key texts on the evolution of supercomputing am I missing, especially beyond the American case? Thanks very much for any and all suggestions! Best, Jon