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So the equilibrated POW will exhibit the
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Simplicity of XML (a Fortran Namelist done right)
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Elegance of Java (Fortran done better and worse)
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Performance of COM (Fortran Libraries done right)
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Completeness of CORBA (Distributed file names done right)
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It may or may not be owned by Microsoft ...
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Note Java the language could survive while RMI is replaced by CORBA/XML servers (written in Java) using IIOP and HTTP-NG
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Note that while the four stakeholders interact in the market heat bath
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HPCC and Scientific Computing is still largely decoupled from marketplace and may not be able to benefit from the POW
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Physics as we know it is a beautiful dying field ...
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So my goal is to gift the benefits of POW to scientific computing and to rescue physics by merging it with computer science (this is my Internetics talk on another day)
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