Some Thoughts on the FGCS Project[*]
Rick Stevens
Argonne National Laboratory
from the very beginning of any new project.
Third, research leaders in Japan need to encourage true collaborations that involve
the setting of joint research objectives, joint funding, and joint management of the
projects.
Fourth, basic research efforts should concentrate on software for general-purpose
machines and should let industry develop the hardware and operating systems soft-
ware.
Fifth, Japan should encourage smaller, more independent research groups that may
be distributed with less central control, perhaps some in universities.
Acknowledgments.
I thank all the wonderful people at ICOT who have made the interactions so pleas-
ant during the past four years. I also wish to continue my relationships with my various
Japanese colleagues in whatever way possible.
[*]This work was supported by the Applied Mathematical Sciences subprogram of
the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-
Eng-38.
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