Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 109 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC - RSA Factoring
The Problem with Fafner
We found that a major problem with our CGI enhanced Web servers that supported RSA130 factoring, was that they did not provide the standard support which one expects from clustered computing packages.
Such as load balancing, fault tolerance, process management, automatic minimisation of job impact on user workstations, security, and accounting support.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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