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Foil 47 Findings 10) to 14) General Points

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
10)The PetaComputer should be designed with a Cross disciplinary team including software application and hardware expertise
11)For the initial "pioneer" users portability and tool/systems software robustness will be less important concerns than performance
12)The broad set of users may require efficient support of current (by then legacy) programming interfaces such as MPI HPF HPC++
13)The petaComputer offers an opportunity to explore new software model unconstrained by legacy interfaces and codes
14)Fault Resilience is essential in a large scale petaComputer
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