Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 10 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


Not clear that CMS is being used to take advantage of spare CPU cycles, but it is evident that much effort is being expended to increase throughput on networks of workstations by load balancing the work that needs to be done.
Nearly all the CMS packages are designed to run on Unix workstations and MPP. Some of the PD packages support Linux, which runs on PCs. Support for Windows NT is planned by many vendors.
WWW software and HTTP protocols could clearly be used as part of an integrated CMS package. Little software of this type has so far been developed - several of the packages use a WWW browser as an alternative GUI.



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