Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 9 General Introduction

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Use of clusters of workstations to increase the throughput of user applications is becoming more common place throughout the US and Europe.
A significant number of CMS packages exist - almost all originate from research projects, many have now been taken-up/adopted by commercial vendors.
The importance of cluster software can be seen by both the commercial take-up and also by the widespread installation of this software at most of the major computing facilities around the world.

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