We have collected several applications that demonstrate various approaches to using hybrid parallelism. This panel will discuss lessons learned in developing and running some of these applications. Discuss strengths and weaknesses of each level. Panelists experienced with combining DMP and SMP models will address a range of approaches to developing parallelism. Super Computing As noted by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, software is the key bottleneck in effectively using computers.
Current programs are too slow, too unreliable, too hard to use, and too limited.
As high performance computing moves to a more networked, more complex, world and more ambitious, more complicated applications, the bottlenecks threaten to get worse. Fortunately, we can count on software researchers to attack and defeat these problems, just as they attacked and defeated the Y2K bug. This panel will describe what makes software so hard for distributed computing, programming tools, user interfaces, and other areas. The Panelists will then venture their best guesses about how we can make software easier. This panel will examine several telepathology applications demanding large data stores, high bandwidth transport, and often high performance computers.