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Foil 30 Special Note - The Ownership Hurdle.

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


Generally a workstation will be "owned" by, for example, an individual, a group, a department, or an organisation.
They are dedicated to the exclusive use by the "owners".
This ownership often brings problems when attempting to form a cluster of workstations.
Typically, there are three types of "owner":
Ones who use their workstations for sending and receiving mail or preparing papers, such as administrative staff, librarian, theoreticians, etc.



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