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Foil 13 Some Terminology - 1

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Application Programming Interface (API) - An interface which enables a third party software developers can write portable programs. Examples are the Berkeley Sockets and those published by Microsoft for the Windows GUI.
Batching System - A batching system is one that controls the access to computing resources of applications. Typically a user will send a request the batch manager to run an application. The batch manager will then place the job in a queue (normally FIFO).

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