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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
Vast numbers of under utilised workstations available to use.
Huge numbers of unused processor cycles and resources that could be put to good use in a wide variety of applications areas.
Reluctance to buy Supercomputer due to their cost and short life span.
Distributed compute resources fit better into todays funding model.

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

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