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Foil 48 Status of CMS Packages - Basic Problems

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
LAN-Based - not scalable!
Limited platform and operating system support - not truly heterogeneous
Do not support all programming paradigms
Load Balancing is generally naive
Single-points-of-failure
Limited-fault tolerance

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