HTML version of Scripted Foils prepared 26 January 97

Foil 79 Some Examples of a Layered Software System

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Application Specific Problem Solving Environment
2 Coarse Grain Coordination Layer e.g. AVS
3 Massively Parallel Modules (libraries) -- such as DAGH HPF F77 C HPC++ HPJava
4 Fortran or C plus generic message passing (get,put) and generic memory hierarchy and locality control
5 Assembly Language plus specific (to architecture) data movement, shared memory and cache control
6 High
7 Level
8 Low Level
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