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From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Single Point of Failure - This is where one part of a system will make the whole system fail. In cluster computing this is typically the batch manager, which if it fails the compute resource are no longer accessible by users.

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