1 | Hardware Trends (5 - 10 Years) - Software |
2 | Very Hard to Predict in the relatively short term - JAVA has been |
3 | around for about a year !! |
4 | Ubiquitous and pervasive (WWW/JAVA-like). |
5 | Can forget about underlying hardware and operating system. |
6 | Metacomputing "plug-ins" |
7 | Micro-kernel-like JAVA based servers with add-on services that can support Metacomputing (load balancing, migration, checkpointing, etc...) |