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CCPE Portal C554
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C. Paper and Referee Metadata

Paper Number: C554
Date: 9 October 2001
Paper Title: The Polder Computing Environment, a system for interactive distributed simulation
Authors: K. A. Iskra, R. G. Belleman, G. D. v. Albada, J. Santoso, P. M. A. Sloot, H. E. Bal, H. J. W. Spoelder, M. Bubak
Referee: Keith Moore
Address: moore@cs.utk.edu

Recommendations: publish as-is

D. Referee Comments (for editor only)

none

E. Referee Comments (for author and editor)

Overall this an excellent presentation, and it seems to be entirely 
consistent with the practical orientation desired for this issue.

Having written asychronous distributed systems using PVM, I am however 
puzzled by the statement that "these systems [message passing systems 
like PVM and MPI] do not support the construction of asychronous systems 
as they restrict the application programmer to the Single/Same Program 
Multiple Data (SPMD) paradigm".  Perhaps a clarification is in order?

F. Presentation changes

It is sometimes difficult to visually distinguish figure captions
from adjacent text.  Also, the last lines of figure captions are
centered, rather than flush left which would seem more normal.

.