Design Goals

• Easy to Use

  • Targeting scientists and engineers that may not be versed in computer architecture
  • Multiple modes of operation
    • GUI
    • Command line (interactive and non-interactive)
    • Scripting (as Python module)
    • Batch

• Portable

  • Platform Independent When Possible
    • Use of components that already support platforms of interest.
    • Some recoding may be necessary if using unique features of an architecture.

• Scalable

  • Thousands of Processors
    • ASC laboratory systems already use up to 8192 processors. Future systems even larger.
    • SGI® Altix® system installed at a customer site has 10240 processors.
  • Hundreds of Shared Libraries
    • Some SGI customers loads 300+ shared libraries.

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