| Ideas from HPCC research Good! |
| Not enough people/funding in field to implement robust production systems |
| Must re-use as much software (including infrastructure software) as possible |
| Similarly must build HPCC software in a modular fashion with small enough modules that smallish groups can build effectively |
| Different modules are likely to use different base technologies (Fortran v Java v C++ etc.) and so interoperability essential! |
| No silver bullet on the horizon - maybe pessimistic but implies better HPCC environments implies better implementations of existing ideas. |
| Need to support both production use of MPP's and "rapid prototyping" in development of new applications - latter is not well supported by current HPCC software systems even though need parallel support for prototyping of new 3D simulations |