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Foil 11 More Features of the Three Tiers

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems RCI North American Annual Member Executive Conference October 13-15 98 -- October 15 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Middle Tier
Distributed (Pragmatic) Object Web
High Functionality Modest Performance
Java RMI/Jini
XML COM CORBA
Distributed Computing
The "Operating System" level of Computational Grids, Enterprise Information Systems etc.
Client Tier
Java GUI Seamless Computing Interfaces
CollaborationVisualization
Microsoft Netscape Browser battle makes unattractive investment
Backend Tier
Special Services such as HPCC
Instruments Traditional Databases
Can use Java as a Scientific Computing Language?
Parallel Computing



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