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Foil 21 Library and Tool Issues

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 Need (to investigate) Threads and Parallel Compilers for latency tolerance
2 Need Latency Tolerant BLAS and higher level Capabilities
  • FFT, Linear Algebra, Adaptive Mesh, Collective Data Movement
3 Performance should be monitored (with no software overhead) in hardware
  • Need to incorporate the "Hierarchy Little Language":
  • "Pablo"-like software gather and visualization
4 Resource Management in presence of complex memory hierarchy

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