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Foil 9 Another Non Technical Issue -- What is the Community ?

From Working Group 2 at Pasadena2 Workshop Second Pasadena Workshop on HPCC Software -- January 10-11,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Need to involve a larger group of non HPCC communities
For instance, most of the messages on networks are
  • MIME (Email/World Wide Web) or eventually ATM (of one or another adaptation layer AAL)
  • Not PVM/MPI
But MPI standrards set internally to HPCC and did not explicitly involve ATM/Internet community/standard processes
HPF focusses on regular multidimensional arrays in an excellent standards forum that ignores
  • VRML which is a fascinating 3D (irregular) datastructure which surely needs HPCC and will greatly broaden relevance of HPCC as used in interactive simulations of virtual worlds
Need HPVRML and a broader community

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