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Summary of Working Groups at PAWS and PetaSoft Meetings

Summary of Application Working Group heaeded by Fox at April 96 Mandalay Beach PAWS Meeting PAWS meeting focussed on evaluation of NSF Point Architecture studies on a year 2007 100 Teraflop machine

Summary of PetaSoft Working Group headed by Fox and Chien from june 96 Bodega Bay Meeting PetaSoft Meeting focussed on Software Issues for PetaFlop Machines

Table of Contents for Summary of Working Groups at PAWS and PetaSoft Meetings

001 Initial Findings of the Algorithm/Application Working Group -- PAW
     96 April  23 1996
002 Overall Suggestions -- I
003 Overall Suggestions - II
004 Other Suggested Point Designs
005 Latency Research Is Needed
006 Geometric Structure of Problems and Computers
007 Memory Hierarchy versus Distribution
008 Needed Algorithm/Application Evaluations
009 Observation on Parallelism -- Burton Smith
010 Some Questions from the Application  Group to the Point  Designs -
     I
011 Some Questions from the Application  Group to the Point  Designs -
     II
012 Some Questions from the Application  Group to the Point  Designs -
     III
013 The Five PetaFlop Kernels - I
014 PetaFlop Kernel:a),b)Unit and Large Stride Vector Fetch and Store
015 PetaFlop Kernel: c). Irregular gather/scatter
016 PetaFlop Kernel: d). 3-D Jacobi kernel, typical of many 3-D 
    physical modeling codes.
017 PetaFlop Kernel: d). 3-D Jacobi kernel -- Actual Code.
018 PetaFlop Kernel: e)Processing of tree-structured data.
019 Application Oriented Software Issues -- April 24,1996
020 Language Related Issues
021 Library and Tool Issues
022 Operating System Issues - I
023 Operating System Issues - II
024 "Initial" Findings of the "Implementation" 
    Subgroup at PetaSoft 96
025 Initial Thoughts I
026 The MPI Program Execution Model
027 The PetaSoft Program Execution Model
028 Initial Thoughts II
029 Further Topics which were not discussed in detail
030 "Final" Findings and Recommendations of the 
    "Implementation" Subgroup
031 Members of Implementation Group
032 Findings 1) and 2)  -- Memory Hierarchy
033 Findings 3) and 4) -- Using Memory Hierarchy
034 Findings 5) and 6) -- Layered Software
035 The Layered Software Model
036 Some Examples of a Layered Software System
037 Finding 7) Testbeds
038 Findings 8) and 9) Applications
039 Findings 10) to 14) General Points
040 Recommendations 1) to 3) Memory and Software Hierarchy
041 Recommendations 4) to 6)
042 Requested Capabilities in Hardware Architecture

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