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Foil 14 The Challenge

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker


Transparent Utilisation of a Distributed
Heterogeneous Computing Environment
Want to fully utilise a heterogeneous computing environment where different types of processing resources and inter-connection technologies are effectively and efficiently used.
Fully Utilise Available Resources
Low utilisation rates of high-performance workstations (LLNL/Los Alamos 7- 10%), as their performance grows utilisation will become worse.



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