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Foil 36 Some Examples of a Layered Software System

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
Application Specific Problem Solving Environment
Coarse Grain Coordination Layer e.g. AVS
Massively Parallel Modules -- such as DAGH HPF F77 C HPC++
Fortran or C plus generic message passing (get,put) and generic memory hierarchy and locality control
Assembly Language plus specific (to architecture) data movement, shared memory and cache control
High
Level
Low

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