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Foil 9 Distributed Systems: Some Problems

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
High Initial and Maintenance Costs
  • - Cost of distributed software - Systems support staff - Technical expertise
Applications Development
  • - Relatively immature technology with few standards- Immature software development tools - Applications difficult and time consuming to develop - Difficult to tune and optimise across all platforms- Load balancing

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