Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: "( " <zahir@senan.eng.sun.com>
Subject: question to mp system designers-researchers
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: 21 Mar 1995 21:48:13 GMT

Hi, what are some of the first order wish list of features
that system architects designing MP systems using off the shelf
commercial RISC processors from SPARC/MIPS/PowerPC/Alpha/Intel
would like to see integrated in these processors for better
scalable/efficient/cost-effective/realtime/latency-hiding/etc
future mp support?

I realize that this question is too broad, and different 
generations of the above family of processors provide 
different "system" features and support. I am mostly
interested in your experience/knowledge of the "current" and 
"announced" generation of products.

Thanks very much in advance for sharing your thoughts 
and insights,

Kind Regards,
Zahir.


