Cray and Sun are working on radical new operating systems and programming environments for the coming petaflop supercomputers.
Zima said the new language will help software developers exploit both parallel programming techniques and the locality of data in a large clustered system. The language will hide details of the underlying CPU but expose specifics about the communications technology used in the high-end cluster. It will also support today's message-passing interface (MPI) and global-address-space programming models, he added.
(via Hack the Planet
