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Foil 6 The Computing Pyramid

From Introduction to Java Tutorial Aimed at Scientific Users NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Bottom of Pyramid has 1000 times dollar value and compute power of best supercomputer (tip of pyramid) but supercomputer has high performance network to support close synchronization needed by classic parallel algorithms

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