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Foil 10 Some Questions from the Application Group to the Point Designs - I

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
1 1. What is the Estimated cost of your system -- use the SIA estimate that semiconductor hardware will be 25 times cheaper per transistor in the 2006 time frame than it is in 1996. You may take $50 per Mbyte for 1996 memory and $5 per Mflop/s for 1996 sustained RISC processor performance (which roughly scales with transistor count), or else otherwise justify your estimate.
2 2. What are your Programming and Execution models
  • e.g.what are targeted programming languages and what features of machine will be exposed to the user.
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