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Foil 19 Inevitable Relevance of the Object Web

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) Seamless Computing Conference ECMWF Reading England -- Sept 17,97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Any large scale metacomputing/distributed computing environment will be shaped by and shape all 5 classes of applications on previous foil
2 Even if only aimed at high end applications, the system will be influenced by and influence the "Object Web" or "commodity software infrastructure" which is here defined as "mass-market"/business IntraNet (low to low) use of Internet/distributed Information System
3 Parallel Computing systems can be viewed as a special case of a Metacomputer
  • Perhaps one will need a stripped production environment for highest performance but
  • best program development environment is likely to be based on commodity technologies as can leverage and track wonderful software aimed at broad based distributed computing

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