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Foil 53 Features of Distributed Systems: The Problems

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
High Initial and Maintenance Costs
  • - Cost of distributed software - Systems support staff - Technical expertise
Applications Development
  • - Relatively immature technology - Few standards- Difficult to debug- Immature software development tools - Applications difficult and time consuming to develop - Difficult to tune and optimise across all platforms

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