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Foil 14 III. Key drivers: The State of the Art

From PetaFlop(JNAC) Overview Presentations -- Results of Studies and Next Steps Sep 19,96 NSTC Committee Presentation -- Sept 19,1996. by Paul Smith DoE
1 TeraFLOPS machine architecture in hand.
2 Programming still is explicit message passing.
3 TeraFLOPS applications are coarse grain
4 Latency management not showstopper for TeraFLOPS.
5 Operating systems and tools provide relatively little support for the users
6 Parallelism has to be managed explicitly
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