General Introduction
General Introduction
- Use of clusters of workstations to increase the throughput of user applications is becoming more common place throughout the US and Europe.
- A significant number of CMS packages exist - almost all originate from research projects, many have now been taken-up/adopted by commercial vendors.
- The importance of cluster software can be seen by both the commercial take-up and also by the widespread installation of this software at most of the major computing facilities around the world.