Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 109 Near and Future Projects

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 A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC - RSA Factoring
2 The Problem with Fafner
3 We found that a major problem with our CGI enhanced Web servers that supported RSA130 factoring, was that they did not provide the standard support which one expects from clustered computing packages.
4 Such as load balancing, fault tolerance, process management, automatic minimisation of job impact on user workstations, security, and accounting support.
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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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