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Foil 44 The Challenge

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


To fully utilise a heterogeneous computing environment where different types of processing elements and inter-connection technologies are effectively and efficiently used.
The use of distributed resources in this framework is known as Metacomputing and such an environment has the potential to maximise performance and cost effectiveness of a wide range of scientific and distributed applications.



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