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Requirements

• Portability. Build library using portable components, e.g., MPI, BLAS, etc.
• High performance. Permit flexibility in managing memory hierarchy.
• User friendly. Provide familiar interface and hide details of parallel implementation.
• Robustness and reliability. Should work for arbitrary process configurations and valid input data. This entails support for
  • safe communications
  • process groups
  • application topologies