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Foil 18 Existing Cluster Management Software

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Much effort is being expended to increase throughput by load balancing the work that needs to be done.
Most packages are designed to run with Unix. Some support Linux (PCs) - NT support is planned by many vendors.
WWW software and HTTP protocols could clearly be used as part of an integrated management package.
Little software of this type so far been developed - several packages use a WWW browser as an alternative GUI.

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