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Foil 111 Metacomputing in the Future

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Hardware Trends (5 - 10 Years)
Software
Very Hard to Predict in relatively short term - JAVA has been
product for about a year !!
Ubiquitous and pervasive (WWW/JAVA-like).
Can forget about underlying h/w and OS.
Metacomputing "plug-ins"
Micro-kernel-like JAVA based servers with add-on services that can support Metacomputing (load balancing, migration, checkpointing, etc...).

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