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Foil 9 Abstraction of Multi Tier Architectures

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems: Gateway and IPSE ASC Dayton Ohio Invited Presentation -- October 29 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1: Client Tier running on PC or Workstations
2: Middle Tier -- a growing sea of (application) servers where most Intranet software activity is concentrated
  • Contains business logic
  • Modest Performance High Functionality
  • Software architecture reflects Macroscopic loosely coupled structure of problems
3: Back end Capabilities such as MPP's
  • Good use requires understanding microscopic tightly coupled parallel structure of applications

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