NPAC Concepts : HPcc High Performance commodity computing
Distributed Computing becomes a commodity article (driven by Web Technologies)
Market niches for orthodox MPP style HPC are shrinking
NT clusters become a viable and more cost effective alternative to classic high performance systems
HLA/RTI from distributed simulation community natural for coarse grain while MPI/HPF/…. Natural for fine grain -- must integrate which we claim can be done using a multi tier architecture
Web/Commodity software (Pragmatic Object Web) - promising base to build new HPcc (commodity computing)