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Foil 4 Some Relevant Lessons from HPCC

From Master Set of Foils for GEM Computational Science Presentation GEM Workshop Santa Fe -- October 24-25 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Software and Algorithms will be more important to GEM than hardware
2 Hardware is driven by "commodity technology" e.g. use of chips from PC and workstation market
  • Detailed hardware architecture irrelevant if one uses software standards such as:
    • Fortran, C++, Java Programming Languages
    • MPI for Message passing in parallel codes
    • Web and CORBA for distributed information and objects
  • If you need to a broad class of approaches to earthquake prediction, one cannot beat commercial efforts
    • e.g. there isn't a useful GEM special purpose computer
  • You can spend more money and get more powerful machines
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