Ames Laboratory, Department of Energy, ISU, Ames, Iowa

IS-5119
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A NEW PARADIGM FOR
COMPUTER USERS

by
Milton C. Wikstrom
John L. Gustafson

Date Transmitted: July 1995

A NEW PARADIGM FOR COMPUTER USERS
by
Milton C. Wikstrom and John L. Gustafson
Scalable Computing Laboratory
Applied Mathematical Sciences
Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-3020
Date Transmitted: July 1995
.6ex Operated by Iowa State University for
the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract
No. W-7405-ENG-82.

• Contents
• Introduction
• Background and Motivation
  • History of Entanglements
  • Failures of the Current Approach
    • Uncertain Accuracy
    • Loop Unrolling
    • Word Size
• Participants
  • End User
  • Application Program
  • The Compiler
  • Hardware Specifications
• Contracts
  • End User to Application Program
    • Time Clause
    • Cost Clause
    • Negotiation Clause
    • Data Representation Clause
    • Goal Clause
    • Interface Clause
  • Application Programmer to Compiler
  • Compiler to Hardware Contract
• Conclusions and Future Work
• Authors' Note:
• References
• About this document ...

Contact: John Gustafson john.gustafson@sun.com
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