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Foil 46 Features of Distributed Systems - Performance (1)

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Decreased turnaround time
- Time-critical applications... - Size of workload increased - More effective use of Users time o Short turnaround - rapid iteration/refinement o Visualisation and data analysis
Solving Larger problems than would fit on a single system
- Easing of memory restrictions - out-of-core calculations... - Improved cache utilisation

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