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Foil 10 Some Questions from the Application Group to the Point Designs - I

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. What is the Estimated cost of your system -- use the SIA estimate that semiconductor hardware will be 25 times cheaper per transistor in the 2006 time frame than it is in 1996. You may take $50 per Mbyte for 1996 memory and $5 per Mflop/s for 1996 sustained RISC processor performance (which roughly scales with transistor count), or else otherwise justify your estimate.

2. What are your Programming and Execution models

e.g.what are targeted programming languages and what features of machine will be exposed to the user.

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