Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 4 1996

Foil 100 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
WWW-Based Project Undertaken at NPAC
The Problem with Fafner
Major problem with the CGI enhanced Web servers that supported RSA factoring, was that they did not provide the standard support which one expects from clustered computing packages.
Such as - load balancing, fault tolerance, process management, automatic minimisation of job impact on user workstations, security, and accounting support.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sun Apr 11 1999