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Foil 28 Software Issues/Choices - II

From HPCC Status -- TeraFlop to Web and Petaflops -- Success and Failure Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

MetaProblems exhibit large grain size functional parallelism as in
  • Multidisciplinary Optimization
Coordination or Integration Software Addresses this.
See SCCS 757 (available from online NPAC reports) which discusses applications and software approaches for all types of parallelism
Java Applet Model is natural approach which can be illustrated by new VRML 2.0 which will build on
  • Success of SIMNET/DSI -- Distributed Simulation for DoD
  • with totally distributed set of Applets invoked by handlers (interrupts = active messages) loosely integrated over world wide Web -- a worldwide object parallelism
  • e.g. Pressing door knob invokes Java applet as does missile hitting tank.


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