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Foil 17 ACTION Motivation

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Industrial and Government Problems
  • Are a factor of 10 to 100 larger (up to 106 lines)
    • Have a longer lifetime
    • Less accessible expertise
  • The parallel hardware must be much better (factor of >ten "headroom" in Carver Mead's model) than sequential competition. This will happen in the next two years.
  • Must have better software to port and maintain large parallel codes -- can only convert once!
    • Are software issues the same for academic and industrial production codes?
    • Probably not? So we need to integrate computer science (software) research and development with experience from industrial codes.

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