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Foil 10 Distributed Computing Systems

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Two Types of Environment
1) Management Software
- Configured outside the OS Kernel.- Interacts with the OS.- Used to manage user applications.
2) Distributed Programming Environment
- Configured within kernel or as a dynamic kernel-module.- low-level interface necessary to get performance.- Typically used to support environments such as VSM.

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