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5. An Agenda for Research
Pages 47-52

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... Implementation of this agenda will involve the entire large-scale computing community and should be integrated into existing and developing research programs. This integration will be most successful if progress is monitored and stimulated by a body of representatives of various funding and performing agencies as well academic, industry, and government experts.
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From page 48...
... It was quickly realized that certain "functions r' were common to many applications -- for example, elementary trignometric functions and input and output of various types of data. Thus, "libraries ·r of software packages and subroutines quickly emerged and frequently served as "building blocks" for constructing application programs.
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From page 49...
... Other activities include projects to build architectures for physics related problems and projects for building architectures for production rule systems and logic programming. The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation system, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is a large-scale program for development of a computer facility capable of solving equations governing the fluid dynamic flows about aerospace vehicles, even though it uses general purpose, rather than application-specific, supercomputers.
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... CONDUCT OF RESEARCH PROGRAM Although this research program can be established and developed in the context of existing federal government agencies that sponsor research in very high-performance computation, it will be most successful if it is given focus and direction by a group of experts who represent interested funding agencies, other government interests, academicians, and the private sector. Because the research effort will be a natural part of diverse projects that are under the auspices of many agencies, the vision and framework for the development of scientific supercomputer performance evaluation should be consolidated within a group that can serve as advisors to the general community of researchers and funding organizations.
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... Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation should undertake a leadership role in establishing a formal mechanism to track. assess, and disseminate research results with a view to bringing about commonly accepted methodologies of supercomputer performance evaluation.
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Key Terms

  • performance evaluation
  • specific architectures
  • applications onto
  • key research
  • composing operations

  • data structures
  • algorithms research
  • computation structures
  • performance goals
  • house science

  • develop procedures
  • science council
  • research issue
  • evaluation methods
  • performance computing

  • defense agencies
  • close cooperation
  • multiplication operations
  • insure optimism
  • final recommendation

  • aerospace vehicles
  • similar programs
  • commonly accepted
  • sponsor research
  • computer research

  • commonly agreed
  • strategic defense
  • accepted methodologies
  • coordinated programs
  • aerodynamic simulation


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