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MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues

Given by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox at Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell on May 7 1996. Foils prepared May 7 1996
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A Brief History of Scientific Computing
- Performance of Supercomputers and Networks
Some Terminology
The Need for Supercomputing - A Rationale for Metacomputing
- Some Examples
- Current Access to Resources
- Need for Alternatives
- Computer Architectures
- Why Use Parallel Computing Techniques
Parallel versus Distributed Computing
- Pros and Cons
- Why Use Distributed Computing Techniques
- Examples of Communications Performance
The Challenge
Infrastructure and Technology
Features of Distributed Systems
  • - Performance, Distributed File Systems, Namespace- Service Availability, Resource Allocation, Security
The Problem...
The Reality
Some Relevant Parallel Programming Languages - Legion - TreadMarks - Linda - HPF - MPI - PVM - JAVA
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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