Subject: Forwarded message

From: [email-masked] (Chuck Koelbel)
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 10:58:19 -0600

Due to mailer problems at Rice, many people did not see this the first time
around.  Apologies to those of you who see it twice.

                                                Chuck

>Date: Tue, 10 May 94 09:46:01 EDT
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>To: [email-masked]
>Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>In-Reply-To: Alok Choudhary's message of Tue, 10 May 94 08:55:04 EDT
><[email-masked]>
>Subject: time to consider options for requirements
>
>   Date: Tue, 10 May 94 08:55:04 EDT
>   From: [email-masked] (Alok Choudhary)
>
>
>   We have two basic goals.
>
>   1. Writing a requirements report.
>
>   2. Coming up qith simple additions/changes in current HPF. E.G.,
>
>       a) 64 bit pointers
>
>This can be handled by the KIND mechanism in F90. Why invent yet another
>mechanism?
>
>       b) Out-of-core directives added to arrays to indicate large arrays
>          and guiding the compiler to handle such arrays. Also, it is
>          possible to specify amount of memory with this directive but
>          that may be very machine dependent.
>
>       c) Asynchronous I/O (Posix)
>
>    We need to address 2 by next meeting for some sort of straw vote and
>further
>    action.
>
>    Things to consider wrt 1 above include distributions of files, mapping
>    on disks etc.
>
>    Please provide your input ASAP.
>
>   thanks
>   Alok
>
>
>