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Foil 6 The Challenge

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 Transparent Utilisation of a Distributed Heterogeneous Computing
2 Environment
3 Want to fully utilise a heterogeneous computing environment where
4 different types of processing resources and inter-connection
5 technologies are effectively and efficiently used.
6 Fully Utilise Available Resources
7 Low utilisation rates of high-performance workstations (LLNL/Los
8 Alamos 7- 10%), as their performance grows utilisation will become
9 worse.

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