An approach towards high productivity computing

Proceedings of: First International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS 2014). Porto (Portugal), August 27-28, 2014.The notion of what exactly we mean by productivity is largely depending on the active paradigms of a particular field and, on a global level, on the present prevailing social, cultural, scientific and spiritual paradigms and environment. It follows that in a long term any specific definition of productivity will have to be changed. Unfortunately, due to the historical processes, present day human-computer communication is on an extremely low level of language complexity. Consequently our present day productivity in using computers from the idea till the implementation is very low. This is primarily due to the circulus vitiosus of interdependecy of (hardware) computer architectures and popular computer programming languages based on the designs of the first Electronic Brains of the mid-last century. The natural, human Language is the prime Human tool for building a common model of the Universe, a huge fractal dynamic system, i.e. machine, whose sub-machines are smaller fractal machines consisting of a series which goes through dialects, sociolects down to idiolects. On the other hand, regarding strictly formal non-adaptable "programming" languages we see that almost all our computer linguistic efforts are oriented towards fixed expressions which are simple enough to be easily and efficiently translated into the scalar serial presently prevailing computer architecture(s). Therefore a new, fresh approach is proposed, based on the idea that the lowest possible level of a computer system shall understand a natural-like communication language, which is contextful and deals with Information, not with Data without Meta-Data. By significantly leveling up the human-computer interaction towards the ideals of a semi-natural language completely new approaches for High Productivity Computing, both on Hardware and on Software level can be thought out, and the NESUS WG1 Focus Group High Productivity Computing has been established, to historically, futuristically and realistically define and, based on that, develop, through partner collaboration projects, such a (possible) High Productivity System based on specific hardware and software.The work presented in this paper has been partially supported by EU under the COST programme Action IC1305, ’Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS)’