Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 3 Lecture 1: An Introduction to the Concepts and Issues

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Parallel versus Distributed Computing
2 - Pros and Cons
3 - Why Use Distributed Computing Techniques
4 - Examples of Communications Performance
5 The Challenge
6 Infrastructure and Technology
7 Features of Distributed Systems
  • - Performance, Distributed File Systems, Namespace- Service Availability, Resource Allocation, Security
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