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Foil 11 Some Questions from the Application Group to the Point Designs - II

From Summary of Working Groups at PAWS and PetaSoft Meetings PAWS(Mandalay Beach) and PetSoft(Bodega Bay) -- April 23 and June 17-19,96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 3. What are your Hardware specifications -- peak performance rates of base processors, sizes and structures of the various levels of the memory hierarchy (including caches), latency and bandwidth of communication links between each level, etc.
2 4. What are your Synchronization mechanisms; hardware fault tolerance facilities.
3 5. What are your Mass storage, I/O and visualization facilities.
4 6. Comment on support for extended precision (i.e., 128-bit and/or higher precision integer and floating-point arithmetic) -- hardware or software.
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