Should couple application parallelism study with evaluation of programming paradigms
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Is there really million way exploitable parallelism in applications
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Address Evolutionary v Revolutionary approaches
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Address Implicit (e.g. HPF) versus Explicit (e.g. MPI) approaches
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The "paradigms" at different levels of abstraction correspond to different "layers" in software
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Define around 6-10 interdisciplinary teams with application and compiler/runtime (and of course architecture) expertise
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ensure full application -- not just kernels -- addressed
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Possibly will need to change algorithms to enhance data locality etc.
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However need only look at focussed application(s) in a given study
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Point Studies would be followed by research program which develops generally useful programming paradigms integrating results of point studies
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