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Foil 8 Components of Initial PetaSoft Program

From Remarks on Fox's White Paper and Working Group Report PetaSoft Foolow-On Meeting San Diego -- January 28,29 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Scalable Parallel Operating Systems: Essential services include Thread, Memory, Process and I/O Management
  • Neither UNIX nor NT will scale to PetaSystems
  • Study (tighter) Integration of O/S with applications
  • Fault tolerance not so important initially
2 Programming Paradigms: Expression of Temporal and Spatial Locality in applications so that PetaFlop compiler/Runtime can exploit
  • Including "Gibbs"-like, MPI and HPF Style approaches
3 Tools: Debuggers, Performance
4 Problem Solving Environments: Ignore in initial effort
5 Industry would be potentially interested in such a program!
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