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Foil 15 Implications of Multi Tier Architectures

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems: Gateway and IPSE ASC Dayton Ohio Invited Presentation -- October 29 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Hardware Architecture
Software Architecture and Philosophy
  • Build loosely coupled systems
Challenges and Opportunities Opened Up
What do we adopt of Commodity Tier
  • Software Infrastructure (Pragmatic Object Web) and architecture
  • Java Grande
What do we retain from HPCC
  • Some component tools such as MPI; most ideas; existing applications
Implications for Education
Note opposite progression from some other approaches:



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