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Foil 7 The Computing Pyramid

From Use of Java Language in Computational Science DoD Modernization Users Group Conference Monterey -- June 7 99. by Nancy McCracken, 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
Web Software MUST be cheaper and better than MPP software as factor of 100 more money invested!
Therefore natural strategy is to get parallel computing environment by adding synchronization of parallel algorithms to loosely coupled Web distributed computing model

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