wescott@LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU (Andrew M. Wescott) (04/24/89)
I think the answer for now and the near future is no. First, I have found some companies reluctant to port our favorite items because the 10000 was so new and they were unsure of Apollo's future. The "future" question should be nearly answered now. Second, I think people are little unsure what direction Apollo/HP will take the 10000. You have the potential here for a fine-grain parallel/vector machine, but the present compiler is basically sequential and scalar (yes I know it does data flow analysis and is locally fine grain, but I mean in the Cray sense). The people who sell commercial computational fluid dynamics, graphics, and general numerical routines want to see their codes run at full tilt on the machines they port them to, and the 10000 is not there yet (I forgot to mention petroleum reservoir simulators which is a big market). Apollo will have to get with the program on this issue, because the competition (like the Ardent Titan) advertise rather flagrantly all the above commercial packages running on their machines. And believe me, they are not running in sequential/scalar mode, because I have seen them. So I think we have a little more waiting to do. In the mean time, write your own routines and use the vector libraries. Andrew Wescott University of Houston Department of Chemical Engineering