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Foil 119 Metacomputing in the Future

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Hardware Trends (5 - 10 Years) - Software
Very Hard to Predict in the relatively short term - JAVA has been
around for about a year !!
Ubiquitous and pervasive (WWW/JAVA-like).
Can forget about underlying hardware and operating system.
Metacomputing "plug-ins"
Micro-kernel-like JAVA based servers with add-on services that can support Metacomputing (load balancing, migration, checkpointing, etc...)

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