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Foil 31 Language Related Issues

From HPCC Futures Topic 2:A Possible PetaFlop Initiative Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox, Peter Kogge * See also color IMAGE
Need to prefetch irregular data
Move regular and irregular data between levels of memory
The Compiler User Interface needs hints and directives
These need a "Hierarchy Little Language" to express memory heirarchy at all levels
  • This will all one to get portability by expressing each architecture with a parameterization of its memory structure with such things as cache size etc.
  • Compare to register instruction in C; SCM and LCM in 7600; distribute in HPF
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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