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

From Multidisciplinary Applications MAPINT97 Workshop -- 16-18 June 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Interoperable Interfaces: allow a given problem to be easily run on any one of many different hosts
2 Multidisciplinary Problems: A single job involves multiple different modules (say CFD and structures) which can on one or more machines
  • Call this a metaproblem
3 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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