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• New challenges
  • No standard software
    Fortran 90, HP Fortran, PVM, MPIbut ...
  • Many flavors of message passing
    Need standard - BLACS
  • Highly varying ratio of

    

  • Many ways to layout data
  • Fastest parallel algorithm sometimes less
    stable numerically