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Foil 12 Some Questions from the Application Group to the Point Designs - III

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


7. Which of the ten key federal grand challenge applications will the proposed system address (aeronautical design, climate modeling, weather forecasting, electromagnetic cross-sections, nuclear stockpile stewardship, astrophysical modeling, drug design, material science, cryptology, molecular biology).
  • How does this relate to particular applications your point design is using in study
  • What are key features of your design which affect its utility in application categories and how will point design study evaluate this
8. Discuss your reliance on novel hardware and/or software technology, to be developed by the commercial sector.
  • Are you evolutionary or revolutionary!



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