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Foil 23 III. Key drivers: The State of the Art

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
TeraFLOPS machine architecture in hand.
Programming still is explicit message passing.
TeraFLOPS applications are coarse grain
Latency management not showstopper for TeraFLOPS.
Operating systems and tools provide relatively little support for the users
Parallelism has to be managed explicitly

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