Evolving Distributed System Concepts
Pragmatic Object Web - Integrate with Web competing models for distributed objects: Java, CORBA, COM, WOM
POW is middleware for multi-tier distributed enterprise applications
- Note Java is very popular to build middleware even if not 100% Java application
High Performance commodity computing - traditional HPC modules managed by POW on new commodity clusters (PC with NT, Linux or Solaris OS) using Distributed Computing Concepts (HLA,RTI) at coarse grain and classic HPCC for computational kernels