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Foil 19 Application Oriented Software Issues -- April 24,1996

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 The joint meeting of Application and Software Groups listed issues
  • Language Issues including Hierarchy Little Language
  • Library and Tool Issues
  • Operating System Issues
2 Two classes of Problem
  • Classic SPMD are in some sense the hardest as they have most restrictive latency and bandwidth requirements
  • Multidisciplinary applications are a loosely coupled mix of SPMD programs
    • Loose coupling stresses functionality but not performance of the software
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