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Foil 51 Scientific Programming Environments

From Integration of Information Technology and Computational Science in Education and Research Computer Science Seminar -- August 27 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Technical (scientific) computing and especially high performance computing (HPCC) is typically viewed as having "unfriendly software environment"
2 CS community has developed good research ideas but cannot implement them as solving computing's hardest problem with few percent of the funding
  • HPCC applications are very complex and use essentially all computer capabilities and also have synchronization and performance constraints from HPCC
3 We have learnt to use commodity hardware either
  • partially as in Origin 2000/SP2 with consumer CPU's but custom network or
  • fully as in PC cluster with fast ethernet/ATM
4 Let us do the same with software and design systems with maximum possible commodity software basis

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