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Foil 29 Further Topics which were not discussed in detail

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 (un)reliability of software which cannot have the extensive testing of a system deployed on a lot of machines
2 (un)portability of software which is targeted at these special machines
3 Need for resilience to faults which are inevitable in such large machines
4 Hardware implications of our software and machine models
5 Software should be delivered at the same time as hardware!
6 I/O
7 Concurrency and Scaling
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