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Summary and Future Work

• High quality parallel software libraries are needed to make parallel computers easier to use. They encapsulate expertise and hide details of parallelism.
• Software libraries are a central component of higher-level software systems, such as problem-solving environments.
• Much work so far has focused on dense linear algebra, and also on sparse and iterative methods.
• Out-of-core dense solvers are under development. Need to standardise parallel I/O.
• Procedural interface is familiar to scientists. Difficult to get them to use object-oriented alternatives.