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Foil 39 Findings 10) to 14) General Points

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 10)The PetaComputer should be designed with a Cross disciplinary team including software application and hardware expertise
2 11)For the initial "pioneer" users portability and tool/systems software robustness will be less important concerns than performance
3 12)The broad set of users may require efficient support of current (by then legacy) programming interfaces such as MPI HPF HPC++
4 13)The petaComputer offers an opportunity to explore new software model unconstrained by legacy interfaces and codes
5 14)Fault Resilience is essential in a large scale petaComputer
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