What and Why is Metacomputing?
What is the application drivers for metacomputing and is high performance necessary?
Essentially all applications will use some sort of computational grid but only some ( a very small fraction?) will use high performance
Most High Performance grids will come from scaling "ordinary grids" which will use commodity solutions.
- Building grids is major activity for corporate software systems
"High Performance" can come from several sources
- Classic "parallel" computing inter-object messages
- Extreme Quality of Service requirements
- Large number of (simultaneous or asynchronous) users
- time-critical/real-time constraints ….