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Foil 60 Role of Standards in HPcc

From General NPAC Foils-98A starting January 98 (PowerPoint) NIST Information Technology Laboratory Washington DC -- January 22 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


HPCC can learn from success of standards in Web arena
  • Simple non optimal quickly adopted AND implemented standards have driven Web revolution
MPI is a successful standard of this type but
HPF took too long -- especially to implement -- as standard too complex.
  • We should have been less ambitious and broken HPF into separate manageable parts
  • at least a high level compiler and well defined low level SPMD model that supports distributed data structures (like DAGH)
CORBA suggests we set up HPcc as a HPCC facility
Java suggests we set up some HPCC frameworks to define client/server interfaces; Java scientific libraries etc.



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