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Foil 8 Needed Algorithm/Application Evaluations

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
It is difficult to compare the various point designs, because the application targets of each individual proposal are so different.
  • Also these each have rather modest funding and can not be expected to satisfy all our requirements
Research is thus needed to analyze the suitability of these systems for a handful of common grand challenge problems.
Result: a set of quantitative requirements for various classes of systems.
We made a start to this with a set of four "Petaflop kernels"

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