The codesign effort pushed by the new requirements/constraints (power and performance) is shaking design decision of existing SW frameworks, hence forcing to get rewritten overtime to add new fundamental functionality (eg. progress threads for asynchronous communication and fault tolerance).
The report, as a holistic view of the challenge, suffers from lack of detail although references are provided for some of their statements. It is obvious that such effort will require multi year investment in a wide range of disciplines. It seems a reasonable amount based on the investments within the HW industry that will seek ROI. I personally think this cannot be anymore a country-only solely lead effort and in terms of budget to develop such program, China could be already better set. Keeping Intellectual Property is going to be difficult under the pressure to deliver within timelines. Joshua. > To this reports defense, it does read as if to reference the near future, a > future where we throw out all existing code and start from scratch. The report > seems to be making a sci-fi-esque call for a complete rethink and reinvention > of billions-and-billions of lines of code. Very admirable. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
