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Foil 98 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
1 WWW-Based Project Undertaken at NPAC
2 How It All Fits Together
3 The FAFNER servers are hierarchical; root server, plus several major subservers - each in turn has subservers, and so forth.
4 Subserver depends on its parent for sieving tasks.
5 The sieving clients (GNFS or GNFSD) are the leaves of the FAFNER tree; they get a single task from a FAFNER server, and then spend time computing the problem.
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