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Foil 9 Comments on Operating System Activity

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
Operating System work must be coupled with real hardware or realistic simulators
  • There are 4000 node systems available now!
A new operating system (suitable for initial use by "first 10-100" users) is a 3-5 year around 10 person development effort
Initial Point Designs would involve looking at O/S issues for particular architectures
  • 2 Industry, 2 Lab, 2 Academia in each of >= 2 teams
  • 6 month studies

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