Findings from the Pasadena Workshop on HPC software technology

The Pasadena Workshop on System Software and Tools for High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments was held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in April 1992. Over a hundred experts in related fields from industry, academia, and government were invited to participate in this three-day forum to assess the current status of software technology in support of HPC systems. The goal was to provide a basis from which new directions in research and development for software technology could be established to enable and accelerate the effective application of MPPs to Grand Challenge problems. Attention was given both to immediate practical considerations concerning current tools and to longer-term issues related to future teraFLOPS computing. The author summarizes the findings and their implications for future directions in HPC software technology developments.<>