From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. byGeoffrey C. Fox
Industrial and Government Simulations in "old" areas where computation is well established
Are a factor of 10 to 100 larger (up to 106 lines)
Have a longer lifetime
Less accessible expertise
This a problem for both new codes and even more so, for porting of old codes
This implies that the parallel hardware must be much better (factor of >ten "headroom" in Carver Mead's model) than sequential competition.
Must have better software to port and maintain large parallel codes -- can only convert once!
Are software issues the same for academic and industrial production codes?
Probably not? So we need to integrate computer science (software) research and development with experience from industrial codes.
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