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MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues

Given by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox at Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell on May 7 1996. Foils prepared May 7 1996
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The Challenge
  • - Transparent Utilisation- Full Utilisation- Construct Metacomputer
Don't Want to Reinvent "Wheel"
General Introduction to Cluster Computing
Some Terminology
CMS Interaction with the OS
The Workings of Typical CMS Package
Special Note - The Ownership Hurdle
Cluster/Metacomputing Environments
  • - A System Administrators Perspective- A Users Perspective
Features and Functionality of CMS Packages
  • - Computer Environments Supported- Application Support- Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy- Configurability- Dynamics of Resources
Status of CMS Packages - Basic Problems
Related Projects
  • - The Information Wide Area Year (I-WAY)- Wide Area Metacomputer Manager (WAMM)- National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering
Near and Future Projects
  • - WWW/CGI - RSA Factoring- JAVA based systems.
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