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Foil 3 3 Important Areas! What are we doing and What are we not doing!

From Master Set of Foils for Two Talks at Dayton (Multidisciplinary Applications, Tango Collaboratory) MAPINT97 Workshop -- 16-18 June 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Interoperable Interfaces: allow a given problem to be easily run on any one of many different hosts
Multidisciplinary Problems: A single job involves multiple different modules (say CFD and structures) which can on one or more machines
  • Call this a metaproblem
Metacomputing: Linkage of multiple, typically heterogeneous, computers to solve a given problem -- this is often a metaproblem
  • Metacomputing often used for multidisciplinary applications!

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