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Foil 7 Some Examples of a Layered Software System

From Software Strategy for JNAC (PetaFlops) Initiative JNAC (PetaFlops) Presentation -- August 28,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Application Specific Problem Solving Environment
Coarse Grain Coordination Layer e.g. AVS
Massively Parallel Modules (libraries) -- such as DAGH HPF F77 C HPC++ HPJava
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 Level

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