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Foil 9 Parallel Computing Works!

From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 What have we learnt ?
  • Essentially all large problems parallelize in principle
    • Written from scratch by an expert but
    • Very Hard if need to Port existing codes from ill-documented Fortran or C++
  • See "Parallel Computing Works" Morgan Kaufman, 1994.
2 Experience dominated by academic and research applications as opposed to real = "industry and government" problems
  • Technology (ARPA) will give us (experimental) teraflop (1012 operations per second) machine by 1995; production teraflop machine by 2000.
  • Several hardware architectures "work"
  • Software lagging behind hardware and parallel algorithms
    • Need productive (easy to use) portable (runs on all current machines) scalable ( will run on future parallel machines ) software.
    • e.g. High Performance Fortran addresses these goals.
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