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Foil 2 Motivations

From HPJava and HPspmd Motivation and Status Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois -- April 27-29 98. by Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox, Xinying Li, Yuhong wen, Guansong Zhang
Data parallelism vital in High Performance scientific computing.
High level HPF programming model attractive, but implementations problematic.
HPspmd model: Distributed array syntax, plus high-level class library bindings for communication and arithmetic on arrays.
Explicitly MIMD control flow.

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