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Foil 5 Latency Research Is Needed

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


Latency tolerant algorithms will be essential
  • Today the most extreme latency issues are seen in networks of workstations and other such metacomputers.
Hardware mechanisms for hiding and/or tolerating latency.
Language facilities (such as programmer-directed prefetching) for managing latency.
Need a "hierarchy little language" to describe latency structure
Software tools, such as visualization facilities, for measuring and managing latency.
Performance studies of distributed SMPs to study latency issues.



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