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A significant problem is that there is essentially no application software and essentially no machines sold
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Real World Architectural issue - what problems will produce substantial sales - should optimize for these?
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So maybe simulation machines will "ride on" commercial database and multimedia server (Web server) markets
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Historically this created problems as in IBM3090 which was business machine adapted for science and very poor at science
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Currently SP2 good for science and doing well in Business applications
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System integration issues
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Does software allow hardware to realize potential ?
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Hardware, software reliability
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(Parallel) I/O for graphics and file access
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I/O interfaces - HIPPI, FCS, ATM ... ATM most important in real world but HIPPI scientific standard?
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