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Foil 3 Some Concepts Learnt from HPCC Initiative

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) ParCo Conference Bonn -- Sept 16,97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


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



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