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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
TeraFLOPS machine architecture in hand.
Programming still is explicit message passing.
TeraFLOPS applications are coarse grain
Latency management not showstopper for TeraFLOPS.
Operating systems and tools provide relatively little support for the users
Parallelism has to be managed explicitly

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