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Foil 5 Alternative Supercomputing Resources

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
1 Vast numbers of under utilised workstations available to use.
2 Huge numbers of unused processor cycles and resources that could be put to good use in a wide variety of applications areas.
3 Reluctance to buy Supercomputer due to their cost and short life span.
4 Distributed compute resources fit better into todays funding model.
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