From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. byMark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
LAN-Based
Limited platform and operating system support - not truly heterogeneous
Do not support all programming paradigms
Load Balancing is generally naive
Single-points-of-failure
Limited-fault tolerance
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