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Foil 4 Comments on Data Parallel Languages

From Remarks on Fox's White Paper and Working Group Report PetaSoft Foolow-On Meeting San Diego -- January 28,29 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Extended message passing will "by definition" allow user to get very high performance
Not clear if penalty of using HPF like approach will be more than classical hope of "factor of two" -- need research and experimentation
  • This is major goal of "fundamental research"
Certainly can move to a "library" like approach (such as Matlab today) with probably interpreted (Java) frontends as an interface to high performance optimized parallel runtime

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